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Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert, 1844- Warner, George H., 1883-1919
Subjects: Literature Literature
Publisher: New York : International Society
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and questionings are not necessary tothcppt;niL.g of a finer vision, to the budding and the growth of diviner powers? With-out this upward force could man have risen to his present height ? When I look at theheavens and the earth, at my own body, at my strength and weakness of mind, evenat these ponderings, and ask myself. Is there no being or thing in the universe thatknows more about these matters than I do?—what is my answer? Supposing ourtheologic schemes of creation, condemnation, and redemption to be dissipated; and thewarmth of denial which they excite, and which, as a motive force, can match thewarmth of affirmation, dissipated at the same time: would the undeflected humanmind return to the meridian of absolute neutrality as regards these ultra-physicalquestions ? Is such a position one of stable equilibrium ? Such are the questions, without replies, which could run through consciousnessduring a ten-minutes halt upon the weathered spire of the Matterhorn.—7>w</«//.
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•a »♦ ( mc,. ■ild JOHN TYNDALL 1514-? arranged with him to have a mass at two a. m. on Sunday; afterwhich, unshaded by the sense of duties unperformed, he wouldcommence the ascent. The claims of religion being thus met, the point of nextimportance, that of money, was set at rest by my immediate ac-ceptance of the tariff published by the Chanoine Carrel. Theproblem being thus reduced to one of muscular physics, wepondered the question of provisions, decided on a bill of fare, andcommitted its execution to the industrious mistress of the hotel. A fog, impenetrable to vision, had filled the whole of the ValTournanche on Saturday night, and the mountains were halfconcealed and half revealed by this fog when we rose on Sun-day morning. The east at sunrise was lowering, and the lightwhich streamed through the cloud orifices was drawn in omi-nous red bars across the necks of the mountains. It was one ofthose uncomfortable Laodicean days which engender indecision,— threatening, but n

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