Excerpt from The Shrine of Silence: A Book of Meditations What then could afford a more delightful surprise than to find the book instantly called for, and three editions in two years required to satisfy the demand. Those who scan these pages for discursive trea tises, for long drawn out contemplations or argu ments, will surely be disappointed. The author has but one object in presenting these writings to the world. That object is to strive to arouse a thoughtful mood in the reader, coupled with an immediate awakening of the higher spiritual forces of his nature. To some the thoughts may seem to be radical disruptive, disorganizing, iconoclastic. But not if they read the spirit of the author into the lines. 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.