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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
True
Nature
Come
Many
Appeared
Men
Wilderness
Forgotten
Practice
Religion

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