Excerpt from The Mirror, 1948 Today as we look about us, that feeling Of i'neptness, once so painfully ours, has been replaced by a placid composure. We are amazed that this sensation Of adequacy should have finally evolved from our humble atti tude Of some months ago. Perhaps this feeling of competence is a natural concomitant Of the long, arduous years of study; perhaps it is a true evaluation of our sense of importance and of the quality of our work; or perhaps we have so run the gamut of human emotions that nothing else can perceptibly shake our composure again. We take leave, but not without regrets and certainly not without the joyous jubilations we have so well earned. We leave no testament to those classes following: merely the evidence Of a task completed; the uncertainty of one yet to be begun. 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.