Excerpt from Excelsior, Vol. 3: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature There is something very insidious in the lapse of time. When we pass the frontiers of a new country they stop 'us at once and demand our passport. They look to see whence the traveller has come and whither he is going and every thing reminds us of the transition. The dress of the people is peculiar. Their language is strange. The streets and houses, the conveyances, the style of everything is new. And often the features of the landscape are foreign. Un wonted crops grow in the fields, and unfamiliar trees stand in the hedge-rows, and quaint and unaccountable creatures flit over our head or hurry across our path. And at any given moment we have only, to look up, in order to remem ber, This is no more my native land; this is no longer the country in which I woke up yesterday. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.