Excerpt from Solitude Nation How sensitive, how alert, must have 3 56 beenbeen the fancy that saw in a wavering of light on the hole of a tree the leap of a Hamadryad into the heart of an oak! But to-day the man who does not shrink from communion with his private angel can hear, when alone in the wild, only the whispering he rejoices to hear - the whisper of Solitude found where she is ready to dispense her largest blessings. There she anoints us with spikenard taken from the box that she keeps only in the wilderness. Her ambassadors mingle with crowds in cities and soothe us in our houses but she herself for ever stands in front of her ancient altar, waiting for our worship and sacrifice waiting to help us waiting to teach us her intimate gospel, a part of which her ambassadors lose by being ambassadors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.