Excerpt from The Tutor's Ward, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel The life of almost every human being is governed by one master thought - the life, we say, of human beings, not human vegetables, of which many flourish in our soil, making a very goodly show, notwithstanding their respectable unconsciousness of all but their material existence. Every thinking mortal has a sovereign thought, to which all others are subservient. 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.