Mountain Meditations - and some subjects of the day and the war

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mountain Meditations, by L. Lind-af-Hageby This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war Author: L. Lind-af-Hageby Release Date: June 30, 2009 [EBook #29277] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOUNTAIN MEDITATIONS *** Produced by Audrey Longhurst, adhere and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net MOUNTAIN MEDITATIONS AND SOME SUBJECTS OF THE DAY AND THE WAR By L. LIND-AF-HAGEBY AUTHOR OF “AUGUST STRINDBERG: THE SPIRIT OF REVOLT” LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C. 1 First published in 1917 (All rights reserved) CONTENTS PAGE MOUNTAIN-TOPS 7 THE BORDERLAND 44 REFORMERS 84 NATIONALITY 131 RELIGION IN TRANSITION 179 7 MOUNTAIN-TOPS Frères de l'aigle! Aimez la montagne sauvage! Surtout à ces moments où vient un vent d'orage. Victor Hugo. I belong to the great and mystic brotherhood of mountain worshippers. We are a motley crowd drawn from all lands and all ages, and we are certainly a peculiar people. The sight and smell of the mountain affect us like nothing else on earth.