Excerpt from There Is No Death The spirit of man at school in the body is like a bird in a cage, or a bird whose wings are temporarily disabled. All who have loved and kept birds know how at a certain season in the year our British song-birds, imprisoned that they may contribute to our pleasure, become restless, wakeful, often beating against the bars of their cage, their power of song seems for the time paralysed. 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.