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Excerpt from Stories by American Authors I have often thought that, were one wise enough, there might be found, in every room, a centre to which all sound must converge. Nay, that per haps such a focus had already been discovered by some one who has wished to appear wiser than his neighbors, who has made use of some hitherto un known scientific fact, and has on any one occasion, or on many occasions, thus made himself the centre of information. 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.
