Excerpt from Let Us Follow Him: And Other Stories HE who would bring to life a real work of art, says Tolstoi, must possess these three things: a true, moral attitude toward the subject; clear expression, or, what is the same thing, beauty of form; and, thirdly, sincerity - unfeigned love or unfeigned hatred for what he depicts. Faithfulness, beauty, sincerity: add to these insight; the power of intending the mind on things, and thus discerning in them qualities of truth and joy unseen by others - and we have a standard and measure for a new work like Quo Vadis. 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.