The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pilgrim, And The American Of Today—(1892), by Charles Dudley WarnerThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Pilgrim, And The American Of Today—(1892)Author: Charles Dudley WarnerRelease Date: December 5, 2004 [EBook #3112]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PILGRIM AND AMERICAN ***Produced by David WidgerTHE PILGRIM, AND THE AMERICAN OF TODAY—1892By Charles Dudley WarnerThis December evening, the imagination, by a law of contrast, recalls another December night two hundred and seventyyears ago. The circle of darkness is drawn about a little group of Pilgrims who have come ashore on a sandy andinhospitable coast. On one side is a vexed and wintry sea, three thousand miles of tossing waves and tempest, beyondwhich lie the home, the hedgerows and cottages, the church towers, the libraries and universities, the habits andassociations of an old civilization, the strongest and dearest ties that can entwine around a human heart, abandoned nowdefinitely and forever by these wanderers; on the other side a wintry forest of unknown extent, without highways, the lair ofwild beasts, impenetrable except by trails known only to the savages, whose sudden appearance and disappearanceadds mystery and ...
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