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The Wing-and-Wing
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Title: The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet
Author: J. Fenimore Cooper
Release Date: April 8, 2004 [EBook #11957]
Language: English
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THE WING-AND-WING
OR
LE FEU-FOLLET
A TALE
BY
J. FENIMORE COOPER
"Know, Without star or angel for their guide, Who worship God shall find him."
PREFACE.
It is difficult to say of which there is most in the world, a blind belief in religious dogmas, or a presumptuous and ignorant cavilling on revelation. The impression has gone abroad, that France was an example of the last, during the height of her great revolutionary mania; a charge that was scarcely true, as respects the nation, however just it might be in connection with her bolder and more unquiet spirits. Most of the excesses of France, during that momentous period, were to be attributed to the agency of a few, the bulk of the nation having little to do with any part of them, beyond yielding their physical and pecuniary aid to an audacious and mystifying political combination. One of the baneful results, however, of these great errors of the times, was t