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+The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Man of Adamant, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+Title: The Man of Adamant
+       An Apologue
+
+Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+The Man of Adamant
+
+An Apologue
+
+by Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+
+
+
+In the old times of religious gloom and intolerance lived Richard
+Digby, the gloomiest and most intolerant of a stern brotherhood. His
+plan of salvation was so narrow, that, like a plank in a tempestuous
+sea, it could avail no sinner but himself, who bestrode it
+triumphantly, and hurled anathemas against the wretches whom he saw
+struggling with the billows of eternal death. In his view of the
+matter, it was a most abominable crime—as, indeed, it is a great
+folly—for men to trust to their own strength, or even to grapple to any
+other fragment of the wreck, save this narrow plank, which, moreover,
+he took special care to keep out of their reach. In other words, as his
+creed was like no man’s else, and being well pleased that Providence
+had intrusted him alone, of mortals, with the treasure of a true faith,
+Richard Digby determined to seclude himself to the sole and constant
+enjoyment of his happy fortune.
+
+“And verily,” thought he, “I deem it a chief condition of Heaven’s
+mercy to myself, that I hold no communion with those abominable myriads
+which it hath cast off to perish. Peradventure, were I to tarry longer
+in the tents of Kedar, the gracious boon would be revoked, and I also
+be swallowed up in the deluge of wrath, or consumed in the storm of
+fire and brimstone, or involved in whatever new kind of ruin is
+ordained for the horrible perversity of this generation.”
+
+So Richard Digby took an axe, to hew space enough for a tabernacle in
+the wilderness, and some few other necessaries, especially a sword and
+gun, to smite and slay any intruder upon his hallowed seclusion; and
+plunged into the dreariest depths of the forest. On its verge, however,
+he paused a moment, to shake off the dust of his feet against the
+village where he had dwelt, and to invoke a curse on the meeting-house,
+which he regarded as a temple of heathen idolatry. He felt a curiosity,
+also, to see whether the fire and brimstone would not rush down from
+Heaven at once, now that the one righteous man had provided for his own
+safety. But, as the sunshine continued to fall peacefully on the
+cottages and fields, and the husbandmen labored and children played,
+and as there were many tokens of present happiness, and nothing ominous
+of a speedy judgment, he turned away, somewhat disappointed. The
+farther he went, however, and the lonelier he felt himself, and the
+thicker the trees stood along his path, and the darker the shadow
+overhead, so much the more did Richard Digby exult. He talked to
+himself, as he strode onward; he read his Bible to himself, as he sat
+beneath the trees; and, as the gloom of the forest hid the blessed sky,
+I had almost added, that, at morning, noon, and eventide, he prayed to
+himself. So congenial was this mode of life to his disposition, that he
+often laughed to himself, but was displeased when an echo tossed him
+back the long loud roar.
+
+In this manner, he journeyed onward three days and two nights, and
+came, on the third evening, to the mouth of a cave, which, at first
+sight, reminded him of Elijah’s cave at Horeb, though perhaps it more
+resembled Abraham’s sepulchral cave at Machpelah. It entered into the
+heart of a rocky hill. There was so dense a veil of tangled foliage
+about it, that none but a sworn lover of gloomy recesses would have
+discovered the low arch of its entrance, or have dared to step within
+its vaulted chamber, where the burning eyes of a panther might
+encounter him. If Nature meant this remote and dismal cavern for the
+use of man, it could only be to bury in its gloom the victims of a
+pestilence, and then to block up its mouth with stones, and avoid the
+spot forever after. There was nothing bright nor cheerful near it,
+except a bubbling fountain, some twenty paces off, at which Richard
+Digby hardly threw away a glance. But he thrust his head into the cave,
+shivered, and congratulated himself.
+
+“The finger of Providence hath pointed my way!” cried he, aloud, while
+the tomb-like den returned a strange echo, as if some one within were
+mocking him. “Here my soul will be at peace; for the wicked will not
+find me. Here I can read the Scriptures, and be no more provoked with
+lying interpretations. Here I can offer up acceptable prayers, because
+my voice will not be mingled with the sinful supplications of the
+multitude. Of a truth, the only way to heaven leadeth through the
+narrow entrance of this cave,—and I alone have found it!”
+
+In regard to this cave it was observable that the roof, so far as the
+imperfect light permitted it to be seen, was hung with substances
+resembling opaque icicles; for the damps of unknown centuries, dripping
+down continually, had become as hard as adamant; and wherever that
+moisture fell, it seemed to possess the power of converting what it
+bathed to stone. The fallen leaves and sprigs of foliage, which the
+wind had swept into the cave, and the little feathery shrubs, rooted
+near the threshold, were not wet with a natural dew, but had been
+embalmed by this wondrous process. And here I am put in mind that
+Richard Digby, before he withdrew himself from the world, was supposed
+by skilful physicians to have contracted a disease for which no remedy
+was written in their medical books. It was a deposition of calculous
+particles within his heart, caused by an obstructed circulation of the
+blood; and, unless a miracle should be wrought for him, there was
+danger that the malady might act on the entire substance of the organ,
+and change his fleshy heart to stone. Many, indeed, affirmed that the
+process was already near its consummation. Richard Digby, however,
+could never be convinced that any such direful work was going on within
+him; nor when he saw the sprigs of marble foliage, did his heart even
+throb the quicker, at the similitude suggested by these once tender
+herbs. It may be that this same insensibility was a symptom of the
+disease.
+
+Be that as it might, Richard Digby was well contented with his
+sepulchral cave. So dearly did he love this congenial spot, that,
+instead of going a few paces to the bubbling spring for water, he
+allayed his thirst with now and then a drop of moisture from the roof,
+which, had it fallen anywhere but on his tongue, would have been
+congealed into a pebble. For a man predisposed to stoniness of the
+heart, this surely was unwholesome liquor. But there he dwelt, for
+three days more eating herbs and roots, drinking his own destruction,
+sleeping, as it were, in a tomb, and awaking to the solitude of death,
+yet esteeming this horrible mode of life as hardly inferior to
+celestial bliss. Perhaps superior; for, above the sky, there would be
+angels to disturb him. At the close of the third day, he sat in the
+portal of his mansion, reading the Bible aloud, because no other ear
+could profit by it, and reading it amiss, because the rays of the
+setting sun did not penetrate the dismal depth of shadow round about
+him, nor fall upon the sacred page. Suddenly, however, a faint gleam of
+light was thrown over the volume, and, raising his eyes, Richard Digby
+saw that a young woman stood before the mouth of the cave, and that the
+sunbeams bathed her white garment, which thus seemed to possess a
+radiance of its own.
+
+“Good evening, Richard,” said the girl; “I have come from afar to find
+thee.”
+
+The slender grace and gentle loveliness of this young woman were at
+once recognized by Richard Digby. Her name was Mary Goffe. She had been
+a convert to his preaching of the word in England, before he yielded
+himself to that exclusive bigotry which now enfolded him with such an
+iron grasp that no other sentiment could reach his bosom. When he came
+a pilgrim to America, she had remained in her father’s hall; but now,
+as it appeared, had crossed the ocean after him, impelled by the same
+faith that led other exiles hither, and perhaps by love almost as holy.
+What else but faith and love united could have sustained so delicate a
+creature, wandering thus far into the forest, with her golden hair
+dishevelled by the boughs, and her feet wounded by the thorns? Yet,
+weary and faint though she must have been, and affrighted at the
+dreariness of the cave, she looked on the lonely man with a mild and
+pitying expression, such as might beam from an angel’s eyes, towards an
+afflicted mortal. But the recluse, frowning sternly upon her, and
+keeping his finger between the leaves of his half-closed Bible,
+motioned her away with his hand.
+
+“Off!” cried he. “I am sanctified, and thou art sinful. Away!”
+
+“O Richard,” said she, earnestly, “I have come this weary way because I
+heard that a grievous distemper had seized upon thy heart; and a great
+Physician hath given me the skill to cure it. There is no other remedy
+than this which I have brought thee. Turn me not away, therefore, nor
+refuse my medicine; for then must this dismal cave be thy sepulchre.”
+
+“Away!” replied Richard Digby, still with a dark frown. “My heart is in
+better condition than thine own. Leave me, earthly one; for the sun is
+almost set; and when no light reaches the door of the cave, then is my
+prayer-time.”
+
+Now, great as was her need, Mary Goffe did not plead with this
+stony-hearted man for shelter and protection, nor ask anything whatever
+for her own sake. All her zeal was for his welfare.
+
+“Come back with me!” she exclaimed, clasping her hands,—“come back to
+thy fellow-men; for they need thee, Richard, and thou hast tenfold need
+of them. Stay not in this evil den; for the air is chill, and the damps
+are fatal; nor will any that perish within it ever find the path to
+heaven. Hasten hence, I entreat thee, for thine own soul’s sake; for
+either the roof will fall upon thy head, or some other speedy
+destruction is at hand.”
+
+“Perverse woman!” answered Richard Digby, laughing aloud,—for he was
+moved to bitter mirth by her foolish vehemence,—“I tell thee that the
+path to heaven leadeth straight through this narrow portal where I sit.
+And, moreover, the destruction thou speakest of is ordained, not for
+this blessed cave, but for all other habitations of mankind, throughout
+the earth. Get thee hence speedily, that thou mayst have thy share!”
+
+So saving, he opened his Bible again, and fixed his eyes intently on
+the page, being resolved to withdraw his thoughts from this child of
+sin and wrath, and to waste no more of his holy breath upon her. The
+shadow had now grown so deep, where he was sitting, that he made
+continual mistakes in what he read, converting all that was gracious
+and merciful to denunciations of vengeance and unutterable woe on every
+created being but himself. Mary Goffe, meanwhile, was leaning against a
+tree, beside the sepulchral cave, very sad, yet with something heavenly
+and ethereal in her unselfish sorrow. The light from the setting sun
+still glorified her form, and was reflected a little way within the
+darksome den, discovering so terrible a gloom that the maiden shuddered
+for its self-doomed inhabitant. Espying the bright fountain near at
+hand, she hastened thither, and scooped up a portion of its water, in a
+cup of birchen bark. A few tears mingled with the draught, and perhaps
+gave it all its efficacy. She then returned to the mouth of the cave,
+and knelt down at Richard Digby’s feet.
+
+“Richard,” she said, with passionate fervor, yet a gentleness in all
+her passion, “I pray thee, by thy hope of heaven, and as thou wouldst
+not dwell in this tomb forever, drink of this hallowed water, be it but
+a single drop! Then, make room for me by thy side, and let us read
+together one page of that blessed volume; and, lastly, kneel down with
+me and pray! Do this, and thy stony heart shall become softer than a
+babe’s, and all be well.”
+
+But Richard Digby, in utter abhorrence of the proposal, cast the Bible
+at his feet, and eyed her with such a fixed and evil frown, that he
+looked less like a living man than a marble statue, wrought by some
+dark-imagined sculptor to express the most repulsive mood that human
+features could assume. And, as his look grew even devilish, so, with an
+equal change did Mary Goffe become more sad, more mild, more pitiful,
+more like a sorrowing angel. But, the more heavenly she was, the more
+hateful did she seem to Richard Digby, who at length raised his hand,
+and smote down the cup of hallowed water upon the threshold of the
+cave, thus rejecting the only medicine that could have cured his stony
+heart. A sweet perfume lingered in the air for a moment, and then was
+gone.
+
+“Tempt me no more, accursed woman,” exclaimed he, still with his marble
+frown, “lest I smite thee down also! What hast thou to do with my
+Bible?—what with my prayers?—what with my heaven?”
+
+No sooner had he spoken these dreadful words, than Richard Digby’s
+heart ceased to beat; while—so the legend says-the form of Mary Goffe
+melted into the last sunbeams, and returned from the sepulchral cave to
+heaven. For Mary Golfe had been buried in an English churchyard, months
+before; and either it was her ghost that haunted the wild forest, or
+else a dream-like spirit, typifying pure Religion.
+
+Above a century afterwards, when the trackless forest of Richard
+Digby’s day had long been interspersed with settlements, the children
+of a neighboring farmer were playing at the foot of a hill. The trees,
+on account of the rude and broken surface of this acclivity, had never
+been felled, and were crowded so densely together as to hide all but a
+few rocky prominences, wherever their roots could grapple with the
+soil. A little boy and girl, to conceal themselves from their
+playmates, had crept into the deepest shade, where not only the
+darksome pines, but a thick veil of creeping plants suspended from an
+overhanging rock, combined to make a twilight at noonday, and almost a
+midnight at all other seasons. There the children hid themselves, and
+shouted, repeating the cry at intervals, till the whole party of
+pursuers were drawn thither, and, pulling aside the matted foliage, let
+in a doubtful glimpse of daylight. But scarcely was this accomplished,
+when the little group uttered a simultaneous shriek, and tumbled
+headlong down the hill, making the best of their way homeward, without
+a second glance into the gloomy recess. Their father, unable to
+comprehend what had so startled them, took his axe, and, by felling one
+or two trees, and tearing away the creeping plants, laid the mystery
+open to the day. He had discovered the entrance of a cave, closely
+resembling the mouth of a sepulchre, within which sat the figure of a
+man, whose gesture and attitude warned the father and children to stand
+back, while his visage wore a most forbidding frown. This repulsive
+personage seemed to have been carved in the same gray stone that formed
+the walls and portal of the cave. On minuter inspection, indeed, such
+blemishes were observed, as made it doubtful whether the figure were
+really a statue, chiselled by human art and somewhat worn and defaced
+by the lapse of ages, or a freak of Nature, who might have chosen to
+imitate, in stone, her usual handiwork of flesh. Perhaps it was the
+least unreasonable idea, suggested by this strange spectacle, that the
+moisture of the cave possessed a petrifying quality, which had thus
+awfully embalmed a human corpse.
+
+There was something so frightful in the aspect of this Man of Adamant,
+that the farmer, the moment that he recovered from the fascination of
+his first gaze, began to heap stones into the mouth of the cavern. His
+wife, who had followed him to the hill, assisted her husband’s efforts.
+The children, also, approached as near as they durst, with their little
+hands full of pebbles, and cast them on the pile. Earth was then thrown
+into the crevices, and the whole fabric overlaid with sods. Thus all
+traces of the discovery were obliterated, leaving only a marvellous
+legend, which grew wilder from one generation to another, as the
+children told it to their grandchildren, and they to their posterity,
+till few believed that there had ever been a cavern or a statue, where
+now they saw but a grassy patch on the shadowy hillside. Yet, grown
+people avoid the spot, nor do children play there. Friendship, and
+Love, and Piety, all human and celestial sympathies, should keep aloof
+from that hidden cave; for there still sits, and, unless an earthquake
+crumble down the roof upon his head, shall sit forever, the shape of
+Richard Digby, in the attitude of repelling the whole race of
+mortals,—not from heaven,—but from the horrible loneliness of his dark,
+cold sepulchre!
+
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