Excerpt from Selfishness, and Its Remedy The author has, for years, had his mind directed to the subject of the ensuing pages; and he now gives his thoughts to the public, not in the self-flattering confidence that he has exhausted the theme or treated it as its importance demands, but in the hope that he may do some good to the cause of truth and righteousness, or may at least be the means of calling abler minds and pens to the task of exposing and extermina ting the universal and gigantic vice. If he knows himself, it has not been the writer's object to make a display of learning or ingenuity; and therefore, scarcely any books have been consulted in the compo sitiou of the work, except the books of conscience, of experi ence, of observation, and the best of all, the book or god. 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.