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Excerpt from In the Beginning (Les Origines) IN publishing a Second Edition of my book, I shall make no change in the preceding lines. Although I have quitted my dear pupils of Issy, this book belongs to them always; their eager questions acted as a stimulus which spurred me on to study it was to satisfy their desires that I wrote. 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.