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Mosses from an Old Manse, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
Mosses from an Old Manse Vol 2 - Classic Reprint Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [" The race of mankind to be swept away, leaving all their cities and works. Then another human pair to be placed in the world, with native intelligence like Adam and Eve, but knowing nothing of their predecessors or of their own nature and destiny. They, perhaps, to be described as working out this knowledge by their sympathy with what they saw... more », and by their own feelings," ? American Note-Books , p. 27.]
WE who are born into the world's artificial system can never adequately know how little in our present state and circumstances is natural, and how much is merely the interpolation of the perverted mind and heart of man. Art has become a second and stronger nature ; she is a stepmother, whose crafty tenderness has taught us to despise the bountiful and wholesome ministrations of our true parent. It is only through the medium of the imagination that we can lessen those iron fetters, which we call truth and reality, and
Table of Contents
THE NEW ADAM AND EVE I; EGOTISM ; OF, THE BOSOM SERPENT 32; THE CHRISTMAS BANQUET 56; DROWNE'S WOODEN IMAGE 88; THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICE 109; ROGER MALVIN's BURIAL 132; P'S CORRESPONDENCE , 166; EARTH'S HOLOCAUST 195; PASSAGES FROM A RELINQUISHED WORK; AT HOME 229; A FLIGHT IN THE FOG 234; A FELLOW TRAVELLER , 238; THE VILLAGE THEATRE 246; SKETCHES FROM MEMORY; THE NOTCH OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS 253 OUR EVENING PARTY AMONG THE MOUNTAINS 257 THE CANAL-BOAT 264; THE OLD APPLE DEALER 278; THE ARTIST OF THE BEAUTIFUL 289; A VIRTUOSO'S COLLECTION 331
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