Things seen in Palestine . accept what 43 c Things Seen in Palestine is new without the necessity for comparingit with the old. Yet it is not always themost learned, nor the most artistic, nor themost original, who find greatest delight inPalestine; it is rather those who are thechildren of the great god Glam, who lookinto the heart of things and see them in the light that never was on sea or land,who can look backward to the childhood ofthe world, who can feel the consciousnessthat they are gazing upon the stage onwhich were played the greatest dramas ofthe worlds history ; that to a great de
Things seen in Palestine . accept what 43 c Things Seen in Palestine is new without the necessity for comparingit with the old. Yet it is not always themost learned, nor the most artistic, nor themost original, who find greatest delight inPalestine; it is rather those who are thechildren of the great god Glam, who lookinto the heart of things and see them in the light that never was on sea or land,who can look backward to the childhood ofthe world, who can feel the consciousnessthat they are gazing upon the stage onwhich were played the greatest dramas ofthe worlds history ; that to a great degreein this country, and out of the genius ofthis country and of these races, were bornthe three great religions of the world ; thatit is in seeking to penetrate the mystery ofplace and people that—alone—one mayhope to enter into that philosophy, psycho-logy, mentality, which dominate the greaterpart of mankind; that—far as we maythink ourselves removed from these Semiticpeoples—it is their thought, experience, 44. American Colony Jerusalem. A STREET OF ARCHES. Showing Ihe narrowness and the curious formation of some of the streetsin Jerusalem. Most, however, are not high enough to admit the passage ofcamels. Glamour of the Holy Land inspiration which have given laws, divineand human, for all the world. Palestine is the best guide-book to theBible, asserted one of our two great guide-books—Murray and Baedeker—at a periodwhen both were in their prime. TheBible is the best guide-book to Palestine,retorted the other, with equal truth. Thespirit of reverence—reverence to God andman—is another attribute necessary tothose who would rightly enter into thespirit of the land, a reverence that is notdaunted by surface disappointments, surfacediscrepancies. One may perhaps feel thepoetry exaggerated that called Jerusalem beautiful for situation, the joy of thewhole earth, but one must be shallow andunsympathetic if one fails to enter into thespirit of patriotism which prom
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