Excerpt from Love's Purple The music of the moon sleeps in the plain egg of the nightingale. If we show signs of a too austere morality we are insulted by the cynical sneer of fashion. We prefer the tinsel and glare of shoddy palaces, the Sparkle of diamonds, and the rustle of silks, to the hut, the calico dress, and Brook Farm philosophy. The paths between the two are devious. Our neighbors are the keepers of our little souls. When very young we have illusions, a white con science, and paint evil black. As we grow older we hear commercial men say honesty is the best policy. This phrase loses its double entendre as we actually experience what temptations men have to be honest. There are many such bib and tucker axioms that cover up the bare diplomacy of most of our dealings. 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.