Excerpt from The Majesty of Man: A Novel<br><br>For a moment a look of triumph illuminated the boy's face; but it died away quickly as he looked round on his conquered world.<br><br>Mountains, forest, and unbridged streams; and beyond the forest at the mountain's base a magnificent sweep of level plain.<br><br>The lad stood so still as he gazed, that the rabbits, frightened by his approach into their burrows, came out again, and, after timid glances, nibbled the soft, green grass, and white and pink daisies at the roots of the tussocks, pausing occasionally in their meal to glance at the boy who was looking far away; far over the plains to where the sea was, and where the sun, every morning, came up from the under world, - the world the boy had read of, where great battles had been fought, and mighty conquerors had lived and died; where poets were crowned with laurel.<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.