The Lost Manuscript: A Novel

The opening of Part I

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"A noble human life does not end on earth with death. It continues in the minds and the deeds of friends, as well as in the thoughts and the activity of the nation."

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CHICAGO
THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY
LONDON: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co.
1898

TRANSLATION COPYRIGHTED
--BY--
THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY,
1887.

PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.

Gustav Freytag has expressed the central idea of his novel The Lost Manuscript in the motto which he has written for the American edition:

"A noble human life does not end on earth with death. It continues in the minds and the deeds of friends, as well as in the thoughts and the activity of the nation."

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