Excerpt from Houses of Glass: A Philosophical Roma In endeavouring to frame in fiction a little of the philosophy of every day life, I would crave the reader's indulgence upon the methods I have employed. In a task of this kind, I felt that I could best serve the cause, not by startling events and striking charac ters, but by a closer analysis of those conditions and occurrences, which form the warp and woof of life. 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.