Weary of its accumulated rubbish, humanity decides to burn it all on a western prairie. A narrator watches as titles of nobility, liquor, weapons, the gallows, scriptures and finally the world’s books go into the flames, while a dark stranger remarks that one thing has been left out of the fire.
A short allegory from Mosses from an Old Manse, as pointed about reformers today as in 1844. Download the free EPUB.