Excerpt from The Future Life and Modern Difficulties In controversial work one has to discuss various opinions, and when one disagrees with them one has to say so, and one ought to be able to say so plainly without lack of charity. Is it necessary for me to say that. Where I have done so I have done so without animus, and without intending any disrespect to those from whose Opinions I dissent? It is, I believe, a tradition of the House of Commons for members not merely to disagree but to hold each others' opinions up to ridicule without personal animus; in private they may even be close friends. I ask my readers to receive anything with which they disagree, and they are sure to disagree with something, in the same admirable spirit. 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.