Excerpt from Philopolis, Vol. 2: October 25, 1907 He never sees that in real healthy life, as in sleep, comedy is ever tipping the scales and sending tragedy plump out of sight. Nature keeps her balances thus, and men in wisdom draw largely on her stores, reserving a little each year for security and the building of the masterpiece. If they are not wise in their day and time, given the abundance of nature, but take some other course, nothing may be expected so surely as the quick turn of an accident - a simple misfortune - into a sad catastrophe. 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.