Excerpt from Samuel Hartlib: A Sketch of His Life and His Relations to J. A Comenius I may speak it with a safe conscience, that I never all the dayes of my life reflected seriously upon my pedigree preferring my heavenly birth above all such vanities, and afterwards studying more to this very day to be usefull to God's creatures, and service able to his church, then to be rich or hour'able.' 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.