Dred: Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint): A Tale of the Great Dismal Swap (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Harrison, A. Beecher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440064792 ISBN 13: 9781440064791

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2012

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Our readers will perhaps feel an interest to turn back with us, and follow the singular wanderings of the mysterious personage, whose wild denunciations had so disturbed the minds of the worshippers at the camp-meeting. There is a twilight-ground between the boundaries of the sane and insane, which the old Greeks and Romans regarded with a peculiar veneration. They held a person whose faculties were thus darkened as walking under the awful shadow of a supernatural presence ;and, as the mysterious secrets of the stars only become visible in the 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 dewdrop, 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 turning the dropping cave to a dusty den this spirit, so remorseless, allows us no such indefinite land. There are but two words in the whole department of modern anthropology the sane and the insane ;the latter dismissed from human reckoning almost with contempt. We should find it difficult to give a suitable name to the strange and abnormal condition in which this singular being, of whom we are speaking, passed the most of his time.
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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440064792
• ISBN 13: 9781440064791
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 374