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    Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
    Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
    Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
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    Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")

    By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) was an acclaimed American novelist. He was born Nathaniel Hathorne in Salem, Massachusetts, though he added a w to his name to distance himself from his family's involvement in the infamous Salem witch trials of the 1690s. The trials, along with Puritan culture in general, greatly influenced his writings. He is best remembered for his hallmark novels The House of Seven Gables, and The Scarlet Letter.

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      Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") - Nathaniel Hawthorne

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Earth's Holocaust (From Mosses From An Old Manse), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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      Title: Earth's Holocaust (From Mosses From An Old Manse)

      Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

      Posting Date: December 8, 2010 [EBook #9231] Release Date: November, 2005 First Posted: September 6, 2003 Last Updated: February 6, 2007

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EARTH'S HOLOCAUST ***

      Produced by David Widger. HTML version by Al Haines.

      MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE

      By Nathaniel Hawthorne

      EARTH'S HOLOCAUST

      Once upon a time—but whether in the time past or time to come is a matter of little or no moment—this wide world had become so overburdened with an accumulation of worn-out trumpery, that the inhabitants determined to rid themselves of it by a general bonfire. The site fixed upon at the representation of the insurance companies, and as being as central a spot as any other on the globe, was one of the broadest prairies of the West, where no human habitation would be endangered by the flames, and where a vast assemblage of spectators might commodiously admire the show. Having a taste for sights of this kind, and imagining, likewise, that the illumination of the bonfire might reveal some profundity of moral truth heretofore hidden in mist or darkness, I made it convenient to journey thither and be present. At my arrival, although the heap of condemned rubbish was as yet comparatively small, the torch had already been applied. Amid that boundless plain, in the dusk of the evening, like a far off star alone in the firmament, there was merely visible one tremulous gleam, whence none could have anticipated so fierce a blaze as was destined to ensue. With every moment, however, there came foot-travellers, women holding up their aprons, men on horseback, wheelbarrows, lumbering baggage-wagons, and other vehicles, great and small, and from far and near, laden with articles that were judged fit for nothing but to be burned.

      What materials have been used to kindle the flame? inquired I of a bystander; for I was desirous of knowing the whole process of the affair from beginning to end.

      The person whom I addressed was a grave man, fifty years old or thereabout, who had evidently come thither as a looker-on. He struck me immediately as having weighed for himself the true value of life and its circumstances, and therefore as feeling little personal interest in whatever judgment the world might form of them. Before answering my question, he looked me in the face by the kindling light of the fire.

      O, some very dry combustibles, replied he, and extremely suitable to the purpose,—no other, in fact, than yesterday's newspapers, last month's magazines, and last year's withered leaves. Here now comes some antiquated trash that will take fire like a handful of shavings.

      As he spoke, some rough-looking men advanced to the verge of the bonfire, and threw in, as

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