Excerpt from Helen Eliza Garrison: A Memorial Rough-how them how we will. Certainly, it is a problem not easily solved how far our earthly career is determined by ourselves, or by the circum stances that surround us. From this or that seemingly tri fling, fortuitous occurrence, how much of help or hindrance, joy or sorrow, success or failure, has fallen to our lot I What if it had not taken place 7 7 here or what should we now be in our affections, relations, pursuits, attainments, aspira tions? In all probability it would have changed or greatly modified our after life; but in what direction, or to what extent, all conjecture is vain. 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.