Excerpt from Poems of the Life Beyond and Within: Voices From Many Lands and Centuries, Saying, "Man, Thou Shalt Never Die" Strange indeed that these gifted souls, true to their own intuitions, should so follow idle fancies, and sing their noblest songs in praise of empty delusions! Strangest of all, that the Divine Power should have made men to believe a lie, to believe it most in their highest moods, and to so persist in that belief, that it grows with the ages and the growth of man! 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.