THIS BOOK MIGHT AS WELL NOT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN;
IT IS DEDICATED
BY
HER OBEDIENT AND GRATEFUL SERVANT AND FRIEND
IN AFFLICTION,
THE AUTHOR.
“O, Man; with what tremors as of earth-begettings hast thou not wrought, O, Man!—Yet—is it utterly indeed of thee—? Did there not toil in it also that World-Man, or haply was there not Some Other?... O, Man! knowest thou that word Some Other?”—Carlyle’s “Frederick the Great.”
Most of these sketches are reprinted from “The Speaker,” and appear in this form by the kind permission of its Editor.
ERRATA AND ADDENDA.
P. 19, line 14 (from the top), for “enteric” read “esoteric.”