Sybaris and Other Homes
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Excerpt from Sybaris and Other Homes: To Which Is Added, How They Lived in Hampton The sympathetic reader will at once see that the essays in this volume belong together, however different in form; and that they follow out the same line of opinion and of hope. With some hesitation, I have resisted the temptation, natural enough, to recast them so far as to substitute the statistics of the year 1900, or in any way the point of view of to-day, for those which belong to the time when the papers were printed. "What is written, is written." The date of the Sybaris papers, which are the earliest, is 1869; the date of the Hampton book, which is the latest, is 1886; so that nearly twenty years parts the two. It is with some pride that in the year 1900 I call the reader´s attention to the fulfilment in thirty-one years of some prophecies of 1869. Cable cars have proved workable in that time; but I have letters of that date from civil engineers who wished to prove to me that they were impossible. Mr. Ingham found the automobiles in successful use in Sybaris, and doubtless to-day he would find them in Naples. 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.
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