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PREFACE 



to him of the natural body raised up a spirit- 

 ual body. That this testimony has been 

 misunderstood is quite possible. ' You may 

 read in it, if you will, the abandonment, 

 rather than the loss, of his early faith ; 

 you cannot read in it, but you shall hear 



. . how he found it again.' 



There is, then, in this matured work of 

 Richard Jefferies a new sense of tears and 

 joy in things earthly and things eternal. 

 He has sought out and laid hold upon a 

 truth that no man, as a finality, can gainsay ; 

 and his Story becomes a revelation of the 

 steps taken by the soul that despite the 

 storms of illusion led him from the first to 

 seek God ; and at the last to abide in Him. 



T. B. M. 



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