Excerpt from The Citizen of the World, Vol. 2: Or Letters From a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East Mentioned LXIX. The fear of mad clogs ridiculed LXX. Fortune proved not to be blind. The Rory of the avaricious miller. 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.