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Title: The Zeit-Geist

Author: Lily Dougall

Release Date: March 26, 2006 [EBook #18054]

Language: English

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The Zeit-Geist

[Illustration: Zeit-geist logo]

THE
Zeit-Geist
Library
of
_COMPLETE NOVELS_
in One Volume.
_Paper, 1s. 6d.; cloth, 2s._

Early Volumes.
By L. DOUGALL.
THE ZEIT-GEIST.
With Frontispiece.

By GYP.
CHIFFON'S MARRIAGE.
With Portrait of Author.

By FRANKFORT MOORE.
THE SALE OF A SOUL.
With Frontispiece.

By the Author of "A Yellow Aster."
A NEW NOVEL.
With Frontispiece.

_Other volumes to follow._

Each volume with designed
Title-page.

LONDON: HUTCHINSON & CO.,
PATERNOSTER ROW.

[Illustration: Bust]

[Illustration: Title page]

The Zeit-Geist

L. DOUGALL

Author of Beggars All, What Necessity Knows, etc.

LONDON
HUTCHINSON & CO
PATERNOSTER ROW

"I ... create evil. I am
the Lord."
_Isa. xlv. 6, 7._

"Where will God be
absent? In His face
Is light, but in His shadow
there is healing too:
Let Guido touch the shadow
and be healed!"
_The Ring and the Book._

"If Nature is the garment
of God, it is woven without
seam throughout."
_The Ascent of Man._

OXFORD, _January 1895_.

_When travelling in Canada, in the region north of Lake Ontario, I came
upon traces of the somewhat remarkable life which is the subject of the
following sketch.

Having applied to the school-master in the town where Bartholomew Toyner
lived, I received an account the graphic detail and imaginative insight
of which attest the writer's personal affection. This account, with only
such condensation as is necessary, I now give to the world. I do not
believe that it belongs