Excerpt from The Radical, Vol. 1: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to Rreligion Irish woman. She has worked hard through the week to buy and make up cleanly and neat, a new dress, a summer shawl; and she has a good looking bonnet on, But just now she appears to have forgotten all about these things. All her troubles, too, are asleep. If we can read her face aright, Mary mcglaucklin has lost herself. But she is most truly living, nevertheless, as she sits there alone, without even herself for company. Her religious nature is expressing itself: she is worshipping God in Nature with devoutest Spirit. But she does not know it, and will not, when her reverie is broken. She will then start up quickly, and hurry away to Church, where, what she calls her re ligion, will find the manifestation she has been instructed to give it. She will cross herself with holy water, courtesy to the Virgin, say her prayers, and count her beads: all this to save her soul. Beside the fountain on the Common, she stole her hour, to forget herself and rest with Nature. And shall we hesitate to say that there the truest life given her was, for the moment, lived - that there poor Mary was really saving her soul, and not at the Church? The illusion, which so blinds us all, was the veil over her wisdom, not yet taken away. When she lost her life, she found it. When at Church she found it, and saved it for eternity - how much of life did she find or save? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.