AWAKENING
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A STUDY IN POSSIBILITIES
BY
MAUD DIVER
"To hold by leaving; to take by letting go, Leaving and again leaving, and ever leaving go of the surface of things; So taking the heart of them along with us— This is the law." EDWARD CARPENTER
NEW YORK DODD, MEAD & COMPANY 1922
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
TO YOU
Who have always sympathized, Always believed, always understood, I dedicate this book. M. D.
"There is a collaboration loftier and more real than that of pen. It is the collaboration of thought and example."—MAETERLINCK.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
CAPTAIN DESMOND, V.C. THE GREAT AMULET CANDLES IN THE WIND
CONTENTS
BOOK I. THE SEED
BOOK II. THE BLOSSOMING
BOOK III. THE FRUIT