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NEW YORKI966  \nFIRST EDITION  \nCopyright,C,1966 by Elizabeth Yates McGreal  \nAll rights reserved.Printed in the U.S.A.  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced in any form withoutpermission in writing from the publisher,except by areviewer who wishes to quote brief passages inconnection with a review written for inclusion in amagazine,newspaper or broadcast.  \nPublished simultaneously in Canada by Clarke,Irwin &CompanyLimited,Toronto and Vancouver  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number:66-11548  \nGrateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permissionto quote material:  \nFriends Journal and Edward Wood for“It Matters Not”byLydia C.Wood.  \nExcerpt reprinted from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran withpermission of the publisher,Alfred A.Knopf,Inc.,copyright1923 by Kahlil Gibran;renewal copyright I951 by Administra-tors C.T.A.of Kahlil Gibran Estate,and Mary G.Gibran.  \nGolden Quill Press and Winifred Rawlins for“This ICan Now Affirm”from her collection Fire Within.Copyright1959 by Golden Quill Press.  \nHarper &Row and Elizabeth Gray Vining for“The Roadto Ewelme”from World in Tune,copyright 1942,1952,I954by Elizabeth Gary Vining,Harper &Row,publisher,used bypermission.  \nThe Macmillan Company,New York,and Macmillan&Co.,Ltd.,London,for excerpts from“Crossing,”LXXI,andfrom“Gitanjali,”XCIII,both from The Collected Poems andPlays of Rabindranath Tagore.Copyright,1918,by TheMacmillan Company.Copyright renewed,1946,by RabindranathTagore.Used also by permission of the Trustees of the TagoreEstate and Macmillan &Co.,Ltd.,London,England.  \nLouise A.Nickerson for“Continuation(E.to W.).”Nora S.Unwin for“Within the Nimbus.”  \nContents  \n7  \nFOREWORD  \n9  \nA LETTER  \nII  \nThe Fact  \nI.  \nI8  \nII.The Adventure  \n27  \nII.The Challenge  \n36  \nIV.The Test  \nP.s.Others³Words  \nThat Have Spoken To Me43  \nf1000  \np","cbCaiihrMIdStZbq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiihrMIdStZbq","pdf",2514607,72,"English","# FOREWORD\n# A LETTER\n## The Fact\n## The Adventure\n## The Challenge\n## The Test\n## Others' Words That Have Spoken To Me","[{\"question\":\"What does the book urge readers to do with sorrow?\",\"answer\":\"It urges readers to call sorrow by its right name and see it for what it is. 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