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Geological Conference. Papers: Preliminary Report on the South-western Margin of the Boston Basin, Mr. A. J. Collier; Preliminary Report on Shore Erosion on Drumlins, Mr. G. C. Curtis; Preliminary Report on Boulder Trains near Arlington, Mr. H. H. Keeler; A Standard Set of Cloud Views (illustrated by stereopticon), Mr. R. D. C. Ward. Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers: Preliminary Report on the South-western Margin of the Boston Basin, Mr. A. J. Collier; Preliminary Report on Shore Erosion on Drumlins, Mr. G. C. Curtis; Preliminary Report on Boulder Trains near Arligton, Mr. H. H. Keeler; A Standard Set of Cloud Views (illustrated by stereopticon), Mr. R. D. C. Ward. Geological Laboratory...
...above all console the imaginative and solitary only, and suffice to him who already suffices to himself. The thought of a god vaguely and vaporously dispersed throughout the visible creation, the conjecture of an animating principle that gives to the sunset its splendors, its passion to the storm, to cloud and wind their sympathy of form and movement, that sustains the faith of the crag in its forlorn endurance, and of the harebell in the slender security of its stem, may inspire or soothe, console or fortify, the man whose physical and mental fibre is so sensitive that, like...
...every-day life, that he should hang as fair diamonds of dew on Cambridge grass-blades as on their famous cousins of Mount Hermon. These autumn trees of ours that seem to have caught and kept the sunset in their branches till it looks as if a western evening-cloud had stretched itself in Fresh Pond meadows, are too ordinary for marvel...
...forget that poetry instructs not by precept and inculcation, but by hints and indirections and suggestions, by inducing a mood rather than by enforcing a principle or a moral. He sometimes impresses our fancy with the image of a schoolmaster whose class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes, they had never seen; makes them feel what, without the sympathy of his more penetrating sentiment...