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10 FIRST PERIOD.
us at once of the inscrutableness and the wisdom of the ways of
God. If, two thousand years ago, we had been permitted to
watch the slow settling of the slinie of those turbid rivers into
the polluted sea, and the gaining upon its deep and fresh waters
of the lifeless, impassable, unvoyageable plain, how little could
we have understood the purpose with which those islands were
shaped out of the void, and the torpid waters enclosed with
their desolate walls of sand! How little could we have known,
any more than of what now seems to us most distressful, dark,
and objectless, the glorious aim which was then in the mind of
Ilim in whose hand are all the corners of the earth! how little,
imagined that in the laws which were stretching forth the
gloomy margins of those fruitless banks, and feeding the bitter
grass among their shallows, there was indeed a preparation, and
the only preparation possible, for the founding of a city which
was to be set like a golden clasp on the girdle of the earth, to
write her history on the white scrolls of the sea-surges, and to
Word it in their thunder, and to gather and give forth, in worldwide pulsation, the glory of the West and of the East, from the
burning heart of her Fortitude and Splendor.
| Title | The stones of Venice - 2 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000021 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 10 FIRST PERIOD. us at once of the inscrutableness and the wisdom of the ways of God. If, two thousand years ago, we had been permitted to watch the slow settling of the slinie of those turbid rivers into the polluted sea, and the gaining upon its deep and fresh waters of the lifeless, impassable, unvoyageable plain, how little could we have understood the purpose with which those islands were shaped out of the void, and the torpid waters enclosed with their desolate walls of sand! How little could we have known, any more than of what now seems to us most distressful, dark, and objectless, the glorious aim which was then in the mind of Ilim in whose hand are all the corners of the earth! how little, imagined that in the laws which were stretching forth the gloomy margins of those fruitless banks, and feeding the bitter grass among their shallows, there was indeed a preparation, and the only preparation possible, for the founding of a city which was to be set like a golden clasp on the girdle of the earth, to write her history on the white scrolls of the sea-surges, and to Word it in their thunder, and to gather and give forth, in worldwide pulsation, the glory of the West and of the East, from the burning heart of her Fortitude and Splendor. |
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