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• The Pilgrim and the Shrine; or, Passages from the Life and Correspondence
of Herbert Ainslie. Edward Maitland. New Edition
(with corrections and additions), John W.
Information: This book, which was nowadays difficult to find, is now being presented to the Internet public in the Anna Kingsford Site. This was the first novel by Edward Maitland (1869), followed by The Higher Law (1871), and By and By: an Historical Romance of the Future (1873). Below you have a picture of the original cover, the title pages, Advertisement to Second Edition, Author’s Note, Preface, Contents, and the complete Html text of the book. Observation: The revision of the digitization errors is not yet complete.
THE
PILGRIM AND THE SHRINE
OR
PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE
OF
HERBERT AINSLIE, B. A.
CANTAB.
BY
EDWARD MAITLAND
AUTHOR OF “HIGHER LAW, A ROMANCE” ETC. ETC.
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“I have always contended that obedience even to an erring conscience was the way to gain light, and that it mattered not where a man began so that he began on what come to hand, and in faith, and that anything might become a correcting virtue and power of germinating.”
– NEWMAN’S Apologia, p. 333.
“He faced the spectres of the mind,
And laid them.”
“At last he beat his music out.”
– TENNYSON’S In Memoriam.
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NEW EDITION
WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS
JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY
Copyright, 1889.
By JOHN W. LOVELL.
‘My purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset and the baths
Of all the western stars –
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles.’
TENNYSON’S ‘Ulysses.’
ADVERTISEMENT
TO SECOND EDITION
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The new portion of this edition consists mainly of some remarks on the dogmatic instruction of children, which the Editor has succeeded in deciphering from Ainslie’s notes of a conversation with ‘the little French-man.’
The Editor takes this opportunity of expressing his deep sense of the obligation under which he lies towards his critics for their careful, candid, and generous recognition and treatment.
He takes leave farther to add only, that such readers as have regarded ‘The Pilgrim and the Shrine’ as being his own autobiography, pay a far higher compliment to his skill than to his modesty; and one that he feels it incumbent upon him here to disclaim.
July, 1869.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
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THE author desires
this and his other earlier works to be regarded as representing steps only in a
process of mental unfoldment, and not those final conclusions which can come
only of a perfect accord between the mind’s two indispensable modes, the
Intellect and the Intuition, duly trained and developed. For such conclusions
the reader is referred to the joint writings of himself and Dr. Anna (Bonus)
Kingsford, “The
(p. i)
PREFACE
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THE Artist appends a title to his performances, places it where all can behold it, and retires, deeming no further introduction necessary. If he has done his best there is no room for apology: whether or not that best be good is for others to judge. Standing aside and overhearing their criticism, haply he may learn somewhat for future guidance.
In the present case the Editor claims to be little more than a Master of the Ceremonies, introducing parties whom he deems worthy of each other’s acquaintance, and not obtruding himself more than the occasion requires.
Some eight years have passed since the materials necessary to enable him to perform his part came into his hands, and his task was for the most part fulfilled; but insuperable obstacles intervened to prevent its completion, and he has been compelled to keep his intention in abeyance, while each succeeding year has brought him
(p. ii)
fresh cause for regret at the delay. Watching the progress of the age he has seen the Romantic subsiding into the Familiar, the Prophetic into the Past. Yet he takes courage from the reflection that, as Truthfulness and Earnestness are of all time, this simple record of an actual life of our day – this unaffected picture of a true child of the century and his life in three worlds – will not be found altogether stale and unprofitable through its long seclusion in the studio. To himself, at least, the contemplation of it has been a source of deep gratification and a new Aid to Faith.
London, 1867.
(p. iii)
CONTENTS
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CHAPTER (PAGE)
(p. iv)
