Excerpt from My Inner Life: Being a Chapter in Personal Evolution and Autobiography T would have been more appropriate and becoming, perhaps, had this Autobiography, if published at all, been deferred to a later period of my life, but a threatened failure of eyesight has left me no alternative. In the uncertainty as to my being able to continue the research necessary for the remaining volumes of my History of Intellectual Development, ' I felt that the central chapters of this work in which I trace the evolution of Modern Thought down to the present day, would sufficiently represent my views of this portion of the subject to give some kind of unity to the whole, in case the larger work were not completed. I am not without hope however, that the progress of the disease may be so far arrested that I may still be able to complete my larger history in detail. In the meantime the present book will serve to draw together more tightly than would be possible in the larger work, views on the world-problem and on Life which lie scattered through earlier volumes. 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.