AWAKENING

A STUDY IN POSSIBILITIES

BY

MAUD DIVER

"To hold by leaving; to take by letting go, Leaving and again leaving, and ever leaving go of the surface of things; So taking the heart of them along with us-- This is the law." EDWARD CARPENTER

NEW YORK DODD, MEAD & COMPANY 1922

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

PRINTED IN U.S.A.

TO YOU

Who have always sympathized, Always believed, always understood, I dedicate this book.

M. D.

"There is a collaboration loftier and more real than that of pen. It is the collaboration of thought and example."--MAETERLINCK.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

CAPTAIN DESMOND, V.C. THE GREAT AMULET CANDLES IN THE WIND