Excerpt from The Potter's Wheel It is inevitable that a serious person should some time or other be perplexed by the ordering of Providence and ask bitter questions. This may be the best of all possible worlds to people who do not think and have never felt. But to their neighbours it often seems unjustly and foolishly governed. Why should one man be handicapped by hereditary disease of body or a worse hereditary taint of soul, so that he has to fight against odds all his days, while another starts with a superb constitution and an accumulated capital of virtue? 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.