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A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age

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A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age (1883)
by Henrietta Dugdale
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a Few Hours


IN A


Far-off Age


BY

Mrs. H. A. DUGDALE.

TO

MR. JUSTICE HIGINBOTHAM

(Judge of the Supreme Court in the Colony of Victoria)

I VERY GRATEFULLY DEDICATE THIS LITTLE BOOK;

IN EARNEST ADMIRATION FOR THE BRAVE ATTACKS MADE

BY THAT GENTLEMAN UPON WHAT HAS BEEN,

DURING ALL KNOWN AGE,

THE GREATEST OBSTACLE TO HUMAN ADVANCEMENT;

THE MOST IRRATIONAL,

FIERCEST AND MOST POWERFUL OF OUR WORLD'S MONSTERS—

THE ONLY DEVIL—MALE IGNORANCE.

H. A. DUGDALE.

PREFACE.


Reader,

If you are under eighteen years old, close this book. It would not interest you.

To those past that age I say: Whatever are your opinions, read it through without shock or start. Then judge calmly and conscientiously my comments on the truths so mysteriously taught me. You will see—provided you have a grain of common sense—that I attack principles, not individuals. I have no desire to hurt quadruped or biped; not even those who have injured me past world-healing.

If you possess any—the smallest amount—of real reverence, you will understand the deeply reverent feeling with which all herein is written.

H. A. Dugdale.