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Title: The Man Without a Country

Author: Edward E. Hale

Release Date: August 8, 2005 [EBook #16493]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece caption:] "He cried out, in a fit of frenzy, 'Damn the
United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!'"

The Man Without A Country
by
Edward E. Hale
Author of "In His Name," "Ten Times One," "How to Live," etc.

Boston
Little, Brown, and Company

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863,
By TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865,
BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865,
BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868,
BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the your 1888,
BY J. STILMAN SMITH & COMPANY
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

Copyright, 1891, 1897, 1900, 1904,
BY EDWARD E. HALE.

Copyright, 1898, 1905,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY.

_All rights reserved_.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Introduction

Love of country is a sentiment so universal that it is only on such rare
occasions as called this book into being that there is any need of
discussing it or justifying it. There is a perfectly absurd statement by
Charles Kingsley, in the preface to one of his books, written fifty
years ago, in which he says that, while there can be loyalty to a king
or a queen, there cannot be loyalty to one's country.

This story of Philip Nolan was written in the darkest period of the
Civil War, to show what love of country is. There were persons then who
thought