Excerpt from New Light on Living Plato was right; no man turns his back to the light - knowingly. We sin in ignorance, and often in innocence. Yet the great laws of life do not change their courses or suspend their opera tions because of the failure of the indi vidual to realize the nature of the forces his attitude brings into action. For whatever we sow, we must reap; and if we sow weed in place of seed, nature cannot stop her world - embracing, bio logic advance for the sake of correcting individual mistakes. Yet as long as we have eyes, with which to see, and ears to hear, we have no more right to find fault with nature, than if we should be drenched by a rain storm after having neglected to bring with us our umbrella or raincoat Knowledge is needed at any cost, - knowledge and judgment; and the laws of life are the teachers which, with unerring certainty, at once pro teet and guide us in the right direction, no matter how circuitous and obscure the course may appear. 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.