. The works of John Ruskin . oua bit of plague-cloud to put beside this; but Heaven knows,you can see enough of it nowadays without any trouble ofmine; and if you want, in a hurry, to see what the sunlooks like through it, youve only to throw a bad half-crowninto a basin of soap and water. Blanched Sun,—blighted grass,—blinded man.—If, inconclusion, you ask me for any conceivable cause or mean-ing of these things—I can tell you none, according to yourmodern beliefs; but I can tell you what meaning it wouldhave borne to the men of old time. Remember, for thelast twenty years, England, and all f
. The works of John Ruskin . oua bit of plague-cloud to put beside this; but Heaven knows,you can see enough of it nowadays without any trouble ofmine; and if you want, in a hurry, to see what the sunlooks like through it, youve only to throw a bad half-crowninto a basin of soap and water. Blanched Sun,—blighted grass,—blinded man.—If, inconclusion, you ask me for any conceivable cause or mean-ing of these things—I can tell you none, according to yourmodern beliefs; but I can tell you what meaning it wouldhave borne to the men of old time. Remember, for thelast twenty years, England, and all foreign nations, eithertempting her, or following her, have blasphemed^ the nameof God deliberately and openly; and have done iniquity byproclamation, every man doing as much injustice to hisbrother as it is in his power to do. Of states in suchmoral gloom every seer of old predicted the physical gloom,saying, The light shall be darkened in the heavens thereof. P ^b Fig. 6 on Plate II.] ;See Note 20; § 80, p. 72.] II. Fig. 4 A July Thunder-cloud in the Val dAosta, 1858 ff^- •3. ®- % 5iP^ - * * —--& -
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