THE SPIRIT IN LITERATURE AND LIFE THE E. D. RAND LECTURES IN IOWA BOSTON AND NEW YORK 1898 Copyright, 1895, BY MARY CUSHMAN COYLE. All rights reserved. FOURTH EDITION. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. ΤΟ MY FATHER AND MOTHER FROM THE SECOND OF WHOM I RECEIVED THE NEVER-FORGOTTEN ADVICE TO THINK FEARLESSLY AND FROM BOTH OF WHOM I RECEIVED AN IMPRESSION OF THE REALITY OF THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTLIKENESS WHICH COULD NOT BE EFFACED BY YEARS OF BLACK DOUBT AND DREARY AGNOSTICISM AND TO WHOM BELONGS THE CREDIT · IF I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO THINK THROUGH ANY ONE OF THE PROBLEMS OF THE AGE |