Excerpt from Workmanship in Words I suppose the English language, with all its faults, is on the whole the best that man ever spoke. Let us do all we can to keep it good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at forgottenbooks 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.