The Heir of Athole

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Excerpt from The Heir of Athole: A Story The heir of Athole is not the hero of his own story. Probably the strongest interest of the narrative centres about a representative of the lowest, most dangerous, most despised caste among us - a tramp. Barry is not an antic play of fancy: the character is the result of a close study of a class and an individual. Barry represents the intense heathenism that marches side by side with the splendid enlightenment of the nineteenth century. Barry arrives at manhood so thoroughly let alone by both Church and State that his soul possesses as little as is possible besides its original innate ideas, while his native disposition is of the type called "harmless." In this soul we trace the process of the development of moral and religious sense. What is there to break the sleep of a conscience that has no notion of God, the sinfulness of sin, and no terrors awakened by overt or startling acts of wickedness? 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.