A Man's World

A MAN'S WORLD
ALBERT EDWARDS
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1912
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COPYRIGHT, 1912 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published July, 1912. Reprinted October, November, 1912
PRESS OF T. MOREY & SON GREENFIELD, MASS., U.S.A.
A MAN'S WORLD
BOOK I
All books should have a preface, to tell what they are about and why they were written.
This one is about myself—Arnold Whitman.
I have sought in vain for a title which would be truly descriptive of the subject and form of my book. It is not a Journal nor a Diary for these words signify a daily noting down of events. Neither Memoirs nor Recollections meet the case, for much which I have written might better be called Meditations. It certainly is not a Novel, for that term implies a traditional literary form, a beginning, development and end. I am quite sure that my beginning goes back to the primordial day when dead matter first organized itself—or was organized—into a living cell. And whether or not I will ever end is an open question. There is no unity in the form of my narrative except the frame of mind which led me to write it, which has held me to task till now.