Excerpt from The Secret SpringsWhy do the daughters of the rich so often marry chauffeurs and the sons of peers mate with chorus girls?Why is there such peace and contentment in smoking tobacco or in chewing gum?Why does a man on the battlefield go blind with shell-shock and recover his sight when his hospital ship is torpedoed and he jumps overboard?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.