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THE
SECRET LIFE

Being

THE BOOK OF
A HERETIC


"Prove all things: hold fast that which is good."St. Paul, 1 Thessalonians v. 21.

"Ici l'on voulut que tout fût simple, tranquille, sansostentation d'esprit ni de science, que personne ne secrût engagé à avoir raison, et que l'on fût toujours enétat de céder sans honte, surtout qu'aucun système nedominât dans l'Académie à l'exclusion des autres, etqu'on laissât toujours toutes les portes ouvert à lavérité."

Fontenelle.

LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY. MDCCCCVII


Copyright, 1906
By John Lane Company


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