Excerpt from The Pitfalls of Speculation Aside from these additions, it has not been deemed necessary to materially alter the orig inal text, as the test of ten years has brought forth no serious criticism of the general con tentions offered. What is sought in the 1916 edition is to amplify, rather than to revise. 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.