For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

He also edited Eliza Fay's (1756–1816) letters from India in an edition first publiE. M. Forsterd in 1925. Sprott and for a time the composer Benjamin Britten. After returning to London from India he completed his last novel A Passage to India (1924) for which he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English novelist short story writer essayist and librettist. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect … ".