The fountain : with jets of new meanings . th such impressible organ-izations, quickly acquire a reputation for story-tell-ing, which is twin-sisterto falsehood; andstrange to say, both arewell-born, being first cous-ins to mankinds sublimefaculties of invention,without which the worldcould make no positiveadvancement in science,mechanism, and art. Thus you comprehendthat the human spirit isa wonderful compound of the young mind is a repository r OP PICTURES. impersonal principles—a fearful arrangement of impressible faculties—whichincessantly call for gratification, and for the most wisedrama
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . th such impressible organ-izations, quickly acquire a reputation for story-tell-ing, which is twin-sisterto falsehood; andstrange to say, both arewell-born, being first cous-ins to mankinds sublimefaculties of invention,without which the worldcould make no positiveadvancement in science,mechanism, and art. Thus you comprehendthat the human spirit isa wonderful compound of the young mind is a repository r OP PICTURES. impersonal principles—a fearful arrangement of impressible faculties—whichincessantly call for gratification, and for the most wisedramatic discipline. Pictures within the mind—that is, the inwroughtpossessions of the imagination—call for pictures adapt-ed to the pleasure of the senses. Modern educationalliterature is an example of this proposition. Latestissues of school-books teem with pictorial illustrationsof positive excellence as works of art. Every depart-ment of creation is brought forth and minutely de-scribed in words and pictures. For purposes of educa-. 142 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. tion diagrams, maps, and pictures appeal suggestivelyto both the senses and the imagination. Science is lifting the veil, and the practical mys-teries of Truth are rapidly surplanting the bewilderingfancies of supernaturalism. No creed-breaker is moreruthless, no iconoclast is more heartless, than are thechariots [mowing machines] and palaces [iron foun-dries and factories] of our scientific and driving it has been said that there is nothingsacred now. The last holy of holies has been invadedand desecrated. One of the Pharaohs is a mummy inBarnums Museum. A mountebank travels overEurope with a little tent in which he exhibits for foursous a piece of the Holy Cross. Where the genii ofthe Arabian Nights Entertainment once reignedsupreme, there is now a ten-cylinder Hoe press print-ing the Koran and a History of the Caliphs. Anews-boy has a stand near the ruins of the Coliseum,and old ladies peddle peanut
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