BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1896 BOSTON AND NEW YORK The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1896 Copyright, 1894, By ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD. By ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD All rights reserved. NINTH THOUSAND. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company. “He hath given a boat to the shipwrecked.” Table of Contents [1] [1] A SINGULAR LIFE. I. There were seven of them at the table that day, and they were talking about heredity. At least they were talking about whatever stood for heredity at the date of our history. The word had penetrated to religious circles at the time; but it was still interpreted with a free personal translation. Perhaps there is no greater curiosity of its kind than that of a group of theological students (chiefly in their junior year) discussing science. It is not certain that the tendencies of the Seminary club dinner are not in themselves materialistic. The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked
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