Excerpt from Asleep and AwakeAnd between the first and last scenes what a magnificent net-work of aspirations, struggles and intrigues - brute force contending with brute force, and blindly and resistlessly overriding spirit spiritual might still yearning and struggling in the dust, and in its turn triumphing over brute strength; everywhere and at all times men spending the strength and glory of their existence in one long, un ending conflict to attain the satisfaction of their desires, which they call happiness; the poor march ing, patiently and persistently through the joy less, monotonous years of perpetual toil, inspired by the hope of attaining a few hours of satis faction at the end; the rich achieving desire after desire, only to discover that in their attain ment they have not found happiness: If there are gods, this is what they behold transpiring through the aeons, this little planet for a stage, the universe for a background and a foreground.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.