Lisheen or the Test of the Spirits (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Lisheen or the Test of the Spirits<br><br>Therefore Bob Maxwell was troubled and that little drama of Russian life did not smooth matters for him. It told of a peasantry sunk in all kinds of ignorance and superstition and vice; of millions on millions of human beings steeped to the lips in everything that could be physically and morally degrading; of a dense brutal type of humanity through which there gleam possibilities of nobleness that might satisfy the aspirations of the most ambitious dreamer of a risen and exalted humanity. The dreadful and poignant remorse that seizes the chief actor in this powerful drama his magnificent exculpation of others and self-condemnation reveal depths of con science and feeling that are generally unassociated with a criminal of such magnitude; and the author clearly wants to prove that deep down beneath the stagnant and squalid surface of peasant life in Russia there are hidden springs of nobility that only need a strong hand to spread abroad and sweeten all the land.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.