. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . cannot be classified except by cutting Gordian knots ina way which none but plain sensible people can tole-rate. Strictly speaking, there is only one place, onetime, one action, and one individual or thing; of thisthing or individual each one of us is a part. It is per-plexing, but it is philosophy ; and modern philosophylike modern music is nothing if it is not perplexing. A simple verification of the autumnal character ofrhubarb may, at first sight, appear to be found inCovent Garden Market, where we can actually seethe rhub
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . cannot be classified except by cutting Gordian knots ina way which none but plain sensible people can tole-rate. Strictly speaking, there is only one place, onetime, one action, and one individual or thing; of thisthing or individual each one of us is a part. It is per-plexing, but it is philosophy ; and modern philosophylike modern music is nothing if it is not perplexing. A simple verification of the autumnal character ofrhubarb may, at first sight, appear to be found inCovent Garden Market, where we can actually seethe rhubarb towards the end of October. But thisway of looking at the matter argues a fatal ineptitudefor the pursuit of true philosophy. It would be amost serious error to regard the rhubarb that will CALONICO. 61 appear in Covent Garden Market next October asbelonging to the autumn then supposed to be , no doubt, it does so, but theoretically itmust be considered as the first-fruits of the autumn(if any) of the following year, which begins before the. g^lfjjgfwff 55>jj . ,. •,;•■••l.,;-,.!-lVVv CALONICO CHURCH, NO. I. preceding summer (or, perhaps, more strictly, the pre-ceding summer but one—and hence, but any number),has well ended. Whether this, however, is so or no,the rhubarb can be seen in Covent Garden, and I amafraid it must be admitted that to the philosophicallyminded there lurks within it a theory of evolution, and 62 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. even Pantheism, as surely as Theism was lurking inBishop Berkeleys tar water. To return, however, to Calonico. The church isbuilt on the extreme edge of a cliff that has been formedby the breaking away of a large fragment of the moun-tain. This fragment may be seen lying down below
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