Excerpt from The Lineage of Lichfield: An Essay in Eugenics Yet, underlying all, of course, is the pro founder connecting theme that Horvendile is the erratic demiurge who composes and controls the entire business extempore, without any prompter except his own aesthetic whims: but that is really a matter almost too complex here to explain. Rather does discretion urge me to refer you to Saevius Nicanor's fine chapter on this very interesting theory. For it all comes back to theory, and to the cooling reflection that it is the nature of every explanatory theory to be evolved after the phenomena it accounts for, - even, I suspect, when it is one's own theory about one's own books. 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.