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    Pilgrim and American
    Pilgrim and American
    Pilgrim and American
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    Pilgrim and American

    By Charles Dudley Warner

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Pilgrim and American - Charles Dudley Warner

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pilgrim, And The American Of Today—(1892), by Charles Dudley Warner

      This 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 at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Pilgrim, And The American Of Today—(1892)

      Author: Charles Dudley Warner

      Release Date: December 5, 2004 [EBook #3112]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PILGRIM AND AMERICAN ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE PILGRIM, AND THE AMERICAN OF TODAY—1892

      By Charles Dudley Warner

      This December evening, the imagination, by a law of contrast, recalls another December night two hundred and seventy years ago. The circle of darkness is drawn about a little group of Pilgrims who have come ashore on a sandy and inhospitable coast. On one side is a vexed and wintry sea, three thousand miles of tossing waves and tempest, beyond which lie the home, the hedgerows and cottages, the church towers, the libraries and universities, the habits and associations of an old civilization, the strongest and dearest ties that can entwine around a human heart, abandoned now definitely and forever by these wanderers; on the other side a wintry forest of unknown extent, without highways, the lair of wild beasts, impenetrable except by trails known only to the savages, whose sudden appearance and disappearance adds mystery and terror to the impression the imagination has conjured up of the wilderness.

      This darkness is symbolic. It stands for a vaster obscurity. This is an encampment on the edge of a continent, the proportions of which are unknown, the form of which is only conjectured. Behind this screen of forest are there hills, great streams, with broad valleys, ranges of mountains perhaps, vast plains, lakes, other wildernesses of illimitable extent? The adventurers on the James hoped they could follow the stream to highlands that looked off upon the South Sea, a new route to India and the Spice Islands. This unknown continent is attacked, it is true, in more than one place. The Dutch are at the mouth of the Hudson; there is

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