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Title: The Great Discovery

Author: Norman Maclean

Release Date: September 4, 2010 [EBook #33635]

Language: English

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THE GREAT DISCOVERY

BY

NORMAN MACLEAN

"Had I stood aside when in defiance of pledges to which my kingdom was
a party, the soil of Belgium was violated and her cities laid desolate,
when the very life of the French nation was threatened with extinction,
I should have sacrificed my honour, and given to destruction the
liberties of my Empire and of mankind."

_Proclamation by King George V._

GLASGOW

JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS

PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY

1915

PUBLISHED BY

JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, GLASGOW

Publishers to the University

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MCMXV

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR._

DWELLERS IN THE MIST.
HILLS OF HOME.
THE BURNT OFFERING.
CAN THE WORLD BE WON FOR CHRIST?
AFRICA IN TRANSFORMATION.

TO

J. P. CROAL

TO WHOM THIS BOOK OWES

ITS EXISTENCE

Preface

Six articles which the writer contributed to _The Scotsman_ constitute
this book. Four of these, which appeared under the title "In Our
Parish," were, in response to requests, re-printed by _The Scotsman_ as
leaflets, and in that form had a circulation that reached an aggregate
of 100,000. One of the articles (now Chapter II.), which was published
on February 14, 1914, has been revised and somewhat enlarged. The rest
are reprinted substantially as they were originally written.

In these last months there has come to the nation a spiritual and
ethical revival. Life will never again be what it was in the last long
summer days ere the guns began to speak. It will be a better world
than it has yet been. The nation is being saved as by fire, and in the
fire