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NEW FOES WITH AN OLD FACE
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NEW FOES WITH AN OLD FACE
BY
CHARLES KINGSLEY
IN TWO YOLS.-VOL. I.
ILontooti
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
" 1890
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TO MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER
My Dear Parents,
When you shall have read this book, and considered the view of human relationships which is set forth in it, you will be at no loss to discover why
I have dedicated it to you, as one paltry witness of an union and of a debt which, though they may seem to have begun with birth, and to have grown with your most loving education, yet cannot die with death: but are spiritual, indefeasible, eternal in the heavens with that God from whom every fatherhood in heaven and earth is named.
G K
A PICTURE of life in the fifth century must needs contain much which will be painful to any reader, and which the young and innocent will do well to leave altogether unread. It has to represent a very hideous, though a very great, age; one of those criti¬
cal and cardinal eras in the history of the human race, in which virtues and vices manifest themselves side by side—even, at times, in the same person—
with the most startling openness and power. One who writes of such an era labours under a trouble¬
some disadvantage. He dare not tell how evil people were; he will not be believed if he tell…