 ... at the outset a great inheritance of Eastern mysticism. Others lost it, but the Irish, all alone on their island, kept it alive and brooded on it, and rooted their whole spiritual side in it. Their religion is full of it ; their blood is full of it....  The Damnation of Theron Ware: Or, Illumination - Page 313by Harold Frederic - 1896 - 512 pagesFull view - About this book
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