"THE
DEBATABLE
LAND"

A Novel
By
Arthur Colton

[Contents]

CHAPTER		PAGE
PART I
I.	"Hinter die Kirche blühe die blaue Blumeleft der Zufriedenheit"	[3]
II.	Of Thaddeus Bourn and his Purposes	[11]
III.	Of Morgan Map and his Purposes	[24]
IV.	In which Thaddeus uses the term "Moral Justification"	[32]
V.	Introducing Hamilton and Saint Mary's Organ	[41]
VI.	Introducing Gard Windham and the Brotherhood of Consolation	[56]
VII.	Introducing Moselle and Mavering	[71]
VIII.	Of Mrs. Mavering, and of the Philosophy of the Individual	[85]
IX.	Of Estates in Happiness	[99]
X.	Of Spring in Hamilton—Of Thaddeus's Opportunity to be Candid	[118]
XI.	The Whirlpool—Mr. Paulus's Reminiscences of Women	[135]

PART II
XII.	Antietam	[149]
XIII.	In which Appears a General of Division, and one of "the Brethren"	[164]
XIV.	In which Mavering Concludes that Cavalry Officers as a Class are Eccentric and Deep	[181]
XV.	Treats of the Distribution of Tracts in the Valley of the Shenandoah	[192]
XVI.	Which Discloses one Daddy Joe, and Disposes of an Evangelist	[207]
XVII.	On the Question of the Exact Location of the Divinity which is Ultimately Called Worth While	[223]
XVIII.	In which there is Discovered a Compunction	[235]
XIX.	In which Windham Drops Out of the Fight—and Mavering Remarks on Human Adaptability	[253]
XX.	Treats of Further Incidents in the House with the White Door	[264]
XXI.	In which We Go Down the River and Return	[274]
XXII.	Of Mavering, who Disappears—Of the Gray Poet—Of Morgan, Who Appears Once More	[286]
XXIII.	The End	[307]

CONTENTS