Excerpt from The Open Self Morning was to be the time of beginning. But the words started to say themselves, and they would not remain pil lowed. So I write in a little room in this city where Whitman and Melville wrote of the colors and the shadows of this America, beginning a book halfway between midnight and dawn. 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.