Excerpt from Odd Happenings Of course I have changed the names of persons and places when it would have been improper to reveal the real ones. I prepared this little volume, at intervals, whilst engaged in a work on Christian Economics and Social Evolution. The first part 'of that ambitious design was shattered by the great European war; and the latter part was anticipated by Prof. H. W. Conn in his Social Heredity and Social Evolution. 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.