Excerpt from Of the Tree: A Popular Illustrated Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society 1906-1907 Balzac has described in magical words the haunting, subduing influence ofa forest. Even in this northern island we have explored the savour and shade of old-world pine-forests, where the wet hill-winds weep. We have discovered, when the woods were around us, heaped and dim, that we were standing unawares in the heart of things. And we have caught sight of the reason why primitive men gathered to worship in these ...
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Excerpt from Of the Tree: A Popular Illustrated Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society 1906-1907 Balzac has described in magical words the haunting, subduing influence ofa forest. Even in this northern island we have explored the savour and shade of old-world pine-forests, where the wet hill-winds weep. We have discovered, when the woods were around us, heaped and dim, that we were standing unawares in the heart of things. And we have caught sight of the reason why primitive men gathered to worship in these glimmering aisles, and built their altars and listened for their oracles under some immemorial tree. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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