Excerpt from The Journal of Koheleth: Being a Reprint of the Book of Ecclesiastes, With an Essay The words of Koheleth have always held a fascination for every true lover of Letters. Perhaps it would be difficult to explain why the literature Of Indifi'erentism holds its place against all inroads of that which is profes sedly purposeful. But one thing is sure, and that is that the sublime tragedy Of Hamlet will never be replaced by any modernmelodrama with a domestic moral. The XXXIII fate that catches the feet of the honest Dane in its relentless mesh is as cruel as that which puts a quietus to his guilty mother, or her partner in murder, the King. The con templation of the hopeless fight, whether of Leonidas at Thermopylae, Horatius at the Bridge, or Custer at the Lava Beds, does not sink us in despondency. Rather it gives us courage and, like the survivors of the Jean nette when they stood on the ice and saw the pennant on the main mast of their gallant ship swallowed in the crevasse, we pull our belts one hole tighter and give three cheers for the flag that surrenders only because it must. 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.