Excerpt from Myself and DreamsWhy have I stated this at the outset? Because I want to give to the reader as honest a book as I possi bly can. In The Curse of Intellect, written in 1895, I tried to get at an independent point of view for the sur vey of human experience. The book in one sense was successful, but,as regards the main object, it was a failure, - the point of view was not independent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.