Excerpt from The Tents of Grace: A Tragedy; And Four Short Stories Man's inhumanity to man has often traced a border of black around many of the fairest pages in the annals of universal history. The fields are green, the flowers bloom, the birds sing, but man - man alone is vile. Perhaps we might prefer to record only those events which show forth the beauti ful, the ble, the true; but it is only in the realm of fancy that all things may take a happy course, and just so long as man is man the historian must ever report the bit ter with the sweet, the evil with the good. 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 techlogy 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.