Transcribed from the 1895 Jarrold and Sons edition by DavidPrice, .  Many thanks to Norfolk andNorwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly allowing their copy tobe used for this transcription.

“This is the condition of humanity; we areplaced as it were in an intellectual twilight where we discoverbut few things clearly, and yet we see enough to tempt us withthe hope of making better and morediscoveries.”—Bolingbroke.

p. iiCryingfor the Light
or Fifty Years Ago

J Ewing Ritchie
Author of ‘East Anglia’

Vol 1

London: Jarrold and Sons
      Warwick Lane E.C.
         1895

p. ivTHIS STORY
IS
Dedicated to
ONE OF MY OLDEST FRIENDS,
BETTER KNOWN TO BETTER MEN
AS THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE JAMES STANSFELD,M.P.

p.viCONTENTS OF VOL. I.