Excerpt from Uninitiated But in spite of their isolation and solitude most children are blest with an intuitive sense of confidence in Mother, ' a sort of blind trust, which believes that though they are powerless to ask it, mother's help will always be forthcoming. This was just what was peculiarly lacking during the first three or four years of my childhood. One circumstance, that during those years my mother was more or less of an invalid, told almost fatally against my natural trust in her; and until my mother got better, any original shy confidence that I had, lay undeveloped within me. 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.