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Dred, Vol. 2: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (Classic Reprint)
Dred Vol 2 A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - Classic Reprint Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe Our readers will perhaps feel an interest to turn back with us, and follow the singular wanderings of tho mysterious personage, whose wild denunciations had so disturbed the minds of tho worshippers at tho camp-meeting. There is a twilight-ground between the boundaries of tha sane and insane, which tho old Greeks and Romans regarded, with a pecu... more »liar veneration. They held a person whoso faculties were thus darkened as walking under tho awful shadow of a supernatural presence and, as the mysterious secrets of the stars only become visible in tho night, so in these eclipses of the more material faculties they held there was often an awakening of supernatural perceptions. The hot and positive light of our modern materialism, which exhales from the growth of our existence every dew-drop, which searches out and dries every rivulet of romance, which sends an unsparing beam into every cool grotto of poetic possibility, withering the moss,, and turnin