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THE PHILISTINES
BY
ARLO BATES
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. All's Well that Ends Well; iv.—3
DEDICATION.
To my three friends who, by generously acting as amanuenses, have made it possible that the book should be finished, I take pleasure in gratefully dedicating
"This is no square temple to the gate of which thou canst
arrive precipitately; this is no mosque to which thou canst come
with tumult but without knowledge."
Persian Religious Hymn.