Excerpt from A Golden Sunset: Sketches and Meditations That such a mind, with such resources of thought, should suffer little depression when suddenly thrown back upon itself is perhaps not unnatural; but the daily drawing from the well of truth, the daily delving in the mines of knowl edge, which induced such habits of thought, were no happy accidents, but the labor of a lifetime. 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.