Author: Robert Shaw

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-16

Total Pages: 1018

ISBN-13: 9781333962418

Excerpt from Creator and Cosmos Illustrated, Vol. 1 of 2: In the Eternally Existent the Existences Treated Of, as the Terrestrial, Embracing the World of Mankind, or the "Moral World," the Telluric Species, Light, Colors, Etc., The Universal and Actual The principal object of this book (although this is not the only purpose it answers, for it conveys to the reader a vast amount of information the most interesting and important) is to simplify as much as possible the subject of the Creator and the Cosmos. To have this done thoroughly and accurately is a work of great magnitude and gravity for the author, of great importance and consequence to the reader, and an accomplishment very much desired and to be desir ed by all lovers of the truth concerning this most stupendous and interesting of all subjects. In our day and country the demand for literature is almost all for the lighter, or, comparatively speaking, trashier kinds, and the book got up designedly to please the eye and to satisfy the morbid fancy is the kind of book of which much the greatest number of copies is expected to be sold. Publishers, having some experience of this, rather incline to push the sale of works of the lighter kinds, which will sell on the railroad cars, in the news depots, and in those places of public resort, where works of the heavier kinds do not usually appear; and they are in general more slow than evidently is for their interest and that of the public to push the sale of books on heavier subjects and more profitable for the masses, although they may see in them a great amount of merit and use, anda desideratum the want of which has long been felt by an exceedingly large class of re ecting and thoughtful minds - the class that is not only in comparably the most intelligent but the most respectable and trustworthy as men of moral principle, and that will see fit to stand by a publisher if he honestly and industriously attends to his duties in the prosecution of his business. 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."