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...results. Thus often in the troubles and perplexities of life, even those who know God best cannot distinguish His hand. On the other hand, if the mirror be perfect there is nothing told to one who is not a good observer. Thus while to a naturalist every plant and rock tells how the laws of nature are working, to the uneducated they mean nothing. So in religion sometimes where God's light is most clearly reflected, there are those to whom it tells nothing of God's love and goodness. In another point this parable of the mirror comes very...
Geological Conference. Mr. W. J. Henderson, "Iron Ores of the United States"; Mr. G. S. Miller, "Notes on Acervularia"; Mr. H. Kennedy, "Theories of Origin of the Roxbury Conglomerate"; Mr. H. Landes, "Rock Collection in New Jersey." Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Mr. A. H. Brooks, "Felsite Occurrences in England;" Mr. F. P. Gulliver. "The Newtonville Sand-plain"; Mr. H. Landes. Report of Rock Collection in New Jersey," Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Mr. A. H. Brooks, "Felsite Occurrences in England;" Mr. F. P. Gulliver, "The Newtonville Sand-plain"; Mr. H. Landes, "Report of Rock Collection in New Jersey." Geological Laboratory...
...improbable that he was influenced by these wood-cuts. The most conspicuous coincidence is in regard to the mother scene. Goethe himself when asked where he got his idea said from Plutarch. In the Hypnerotomachia however, there are two wood-cuts, the first showing a rock in which are cut three gates, the inscription over the middle one being "mater amoris," the second showing the meeting of the hero after he had passed through the gate with several woman, one of whom, a motherly looking woman, is standing, pointing upward...