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Title: The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth
As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer

Author: Lewis H. Berens

Release Date: January 8, 2006 [eBook #17480]

Language: English

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THE DIGGER MOVEMENT IN THE DAYS OF THE COMMONWEALTH

As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger
_Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer_

by

LEWIS H. BERENS
Author of "Towards the Light"
Etc. Etc.

"Was glaenzt ist fuer den Augenblick geboren;
Das Echte bleibt der{1} Nachwelt unverloren."
GOETHE.

London
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co. Ltd.
1906

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

TO

THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
(THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT)

TO WHOM THE WORLD OWES MORE THAN IT YET RECOGNISES
AND
WHOSE FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINES
THE AUTHOR
HAS LEARNED TO LOVE AND ADMIRE
WHILST WRITING THIS BOOK

CO