Excerpt from The True Man: And Other Practical SermonsSO our bodies die. First, this power decays, then this member fails; elasticity, buoyancy, strength, these go one after another. First, the keepers of the house tremble, then the grinders cease, because they are few, then these which look out of the windows are darkened and soon, very soon, the house We live in is SO injured, that we must move out of it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at 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.