. Ninety-three . lofty, whether it be a genius or a mountain—anassembly as well as a masterpiece—alarms when seen too near. Animmense height appears an exaggeration. It is fatiguing to climb. Oneloses breath upon ac(li\ities, one slips down deelities, one is hurt byshai-p, rugged heights which are in themselves beautiful ; torrents intheir foaming reveal the precipices ; clouds hide the mountain-tops ; asudden ascent terrifies as much as a fall. Hence there is a greater sen-satiou of fright than admiialion. What one feels is fantastic enough— 179 180 NIXUTY- THREE. au aversion to the graud. Uu
. Ninety-three . lofty, whether it be a genius or a mountain—anassembly as well as a masterpiece—alarms when seen too near. Animmense height appears an exaggeration. It is fatiguing to climb. Oneloses breath upon ac(li\ities, one slips down deelities, one is hurt byshai-p, rugged heights which are in themselves beautiful ; torrents intheir foaming reveal the precipices ; clouds hide the mountain-tops ; asudden ascent terrifies as much as a fall. Hence there is a greater sen-satiou of fright than admiialion. What one feels is fantastic enough— 179 180 NIXUTY- THREE. au aversion to the graud. Uue .sees the abyss and loses sight of thesublimity; one sees the monster and does not perceive the the Convention was at first judged. It was measure<l by the pur-blind—it, which needed to be looked at by eagles. To-day we see it iu i^erspective, and it throws across the deej) anddistant heavens, against a background at once serene and tragic—theinnnense profile of the French t HEPrBJ<lQtJS^ frBANCÀïSE %
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