Excerpt from Looking Backward Ihave no apology to offer for what I have to say in the pages of this book, because the stories of the origin of the Red Cross and other organiza tions with which I have been connected are of historical interest to the members of those societies in particular and may be interesting to the public. It seems to me that it is a kind of duty one owes, to leave something behind one, ere one goes hence, so that future generations may know that we, of this generation, worked for the future as well as for the present, and that we expect them to con tinne to build on the foundations we have laid. I have had doubts of my ability to carry this work through to completion, but I have been constantly encouraged by my wife to persevere; to this and to her criticism, I owe much. 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.