The Man of Adamant
                                            
                            By Nathaniel Hawthorne
                            
                                26 Sep, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Book Extract: In the old times of religious gloom and intolerance lived Richard Digby, the gloomiest and most intolerant of a stern brotherhood. His plan of salvation was so narrow, that, like a plank in a tempestuous sea, it could avail no sinner bu
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                                                Book Extract: In the old times of religious gloom and intolerance lived Richard Digby, the gloomiest and most intolerant of a stern brotherhood. His plan of salvation was so narrow, that, like a plank in a tempestuous sea, it could avail no sinner but himself, who bestrode it triumphantly and hurled anathemas against the wretches whom he saw struggling with the billows of eternal death. Less