. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . almost universally preferred to ordinary breadby the inhabitants of what was formerly Piedmont,but beyond these limits it is rarely seen. Why so ?Either it is good or not good. If not good, how hasit prevailed over so large an area? If good, whydoes it not extend its empire ? The Reformation isanother case in point: granted that Protestantism isillogical, how is it that so few within a given area canperceive it to be so ? The same question arises inrespect of the distribution of many plants and animals;the reason of the limits
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . almost universally preferred to ordinary breadby the inhabitants of what was formerly Piedmont,but beyond these limits it is rarely seen. Why so ?Either it is good or not good. If not good, how hasit prevailed over so large an area? If good, whydoes it not extend its empire ? The Reformation isanother case in point: granted that Protestantism isillogical, how is it that so few within a given area canperceive it to be so ? The same question arises inrespect of the distribution of many plants and animals;the reason of the limits which some of them cannotpass, being, indeed, perfectly clear, but as regardsperhaps the greater number of them, undiscoverable. 174 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. The upshot of it is that things do not in practice findtheir perfect level any more than water does so, butare liable to disturbance by way of tides and localcurrents, or storms. It is in his power to perceiveand profit by these irregularities that the strength orweakness of a commercial man will be One day I made an excursion from Lanzo to aplace, the name of which I cannot remember, butwhich is not far from the Groscavallo glacier. HereI found several Italians staying to take the air, andamong them one young gentleman, who told me hewas writing a book upon this neighbourhood, andwas going to illustrate it with his own drawings. LANZO. 175 This naturally interested me, and I encouraged himto tell me more, which he was nothing loth to said he had a passion for drawing, and wasmaking rapid progress; but there was one thingthat held him back—the not having any Contechalk : if he had but this, all his difficulties would
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