One Immortality (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from One Immortality<br><br>There are three loves that make and keep the world - the love that binds man and woman into one flesh and soul, the love that draws families into nations, the love that holds the world to God.<br><br>Each love is justified in its own Immortality.<br><br>All of our life that is worth the living is the expression of one or more of these loves; all our religions are attempts to explain them; all our hopes are in their immortalities. Therefore every story that is not confined to the mere trappings of to-day must proceed from them.<br><br>This book is about the first.<br><br>Venice at sunset, and a ship that came in from the open sea.<br><br>They had left Trieste that morning, and all the day had steamed across the sunlit sea. Upon their right the Dolomites rose up to peaks of snow, and in front the coast of Italy grew more and more distinct.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.