Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. medium of the imagination that we can lessen those iron fetters, which we call truth and reality, and make ourselves even partially sensible what prisoners we are. For instance, let us conceive good Father Miller's inter- pretation of the prophecies to have proved true. The Day of Doom has burst upon the globe and swept away the whole race of men. From cities and fields, seashore and midland mountain region, vast continents, and even 18 |