In the Land of the Strenuous Life (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Abbe Felix Klein
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330730485
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Excerpt from In the Land of the Strenuous Life If I were to consider only your habit of asking visitors to your country, "How do you like America?" I might offer this book with entire confidence, since it is precisely an answer to your own repeated inquiry. Yet this response has not been prepared for you, but for others - for mere Europeans. On the other side of the water also, people have asked me, "What do you think of America?" I have told them, and they have listened with a certain measure of interest. And how can I expect you in America to lend your ears to a resident of the Old World who addresses himself to other inhabitants of the Old World? Is there any significance for you in these "Dialogues of the Dead"? I have another reason for hesitation. Not imagining that these pages would fall under your eyes, I wrote them under the influence of a sentiment which now brings me to some confusion, a sentiment for which I must crave your pardon. I wrote them, alas! with an excess of benevolence. In spite of some criticisms (only too rare and inadequate), I have said too much good of you, as I now humbly confess. 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.