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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Morning Star, by H. Rider Haggard 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.org Title: Morning Star Author: H. Rider Haggard Release Date: April 3, 2006 [EBook #2722] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MORNING STAR *** Produced by John Bickers; Dagny; Emma Dudding MORNING STAR by H. Rider Haggard DEDICATION My dear Budge,-- Only a friendship extending over many years emboldened me, an amateur, to propose to dedicate a Romance of Old Egypt to you, one of the world's masters of the language and lore of the great people who in these latter days arise from their holy tombs to instruct us in the secrets of history and faith. With doubt I submitted to you this story, asking whether you wished to accept pages that could not, I feared, be free from error, and with surprise in due course I read, among other kind things, your advice to me to "leave it exactly as it is." So I take you at your word, although I can scarcely think that in paths so remote and difficult I have not sometimes gone astray. Whatever may be the shortcomings, therefore, that your kindness has concealed from me, since this tale was so fortunate as to please and interest you, its first critic, I offer it to you as an earnest of my respect for your learning and your labours. Very sincerely yours, H. Rider Haggard. Ditchingham. To Doctor Wallis Budge, Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum. AUTHOR'S NOTE It may be thought that even in a story of Old Egypt to represent a "Ka" or "Double" as remaining in active occupation of a throne, while the owner of the said "Double" goes upon a long journey and achieves sundry adventures, is, in fact, to take a liberty with Doubles. Yet I believe that this is scarcely the case. The _Ka_ or Double which Wiedermann aptly calls the "Personality within the Person" appears, according to Egyptian theory, to have had an existence of its own. It did not die when the body died, for it was immortal and awaited the resurrection of that body, with which, henceforth, it would be reunited and dwell eternally. To quote Wiedermann again, "The _Ka_ could live
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