This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...the evanescent mist, the glittering white frosting of the marble-rock band upon the distant rim, the old-rose banner beneath the white, the gray-green of the middle distance, and the somber brown-red frame of shaded rock-masses that make the outlooking doors of the amphitheater in the foreground--this picture seems so ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...the evanescent mist, the glittering white frosting of the marble-rock band upon the distant rim, the old-rose banner beneath the white, the gray-green of the middle distance, and the somber brown-red frame of shaded rock-masses that make the outlooking doors of the amphitheater in the foreground--this picture seems so obvious that a child might make it. The plays of Shakespeare and the world's masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and music have this same simplicity. The portrayal of any great fundamental passion seems just as easy as the painting of this canyon landscape. But the artists who have put it in mimic form and color have made it complex. And the writers who have tried to tell of it have made mere muddles of words that mean nothing. The canyon's master has not come to it. THE SACRILEGIOUS YARD STICK. The high white band of rock just under the further rim is shining in the sun. It seems a dainty strip in the distance, but back along the trail, at the top of the amphitheater, a white marble ledge rises five hundred feet to the roof of the world; it is a twohours' walk down this cliff, yet it is the white ribbon that flashed in the sunset across the river, lending itself to mere decoration and losing its dignity in distance. The canyon's spectacular effect grows dimmer in the consciousness, and one feels himself confusedly trying to comprehend the chasm's immensity. Yet this may not be done--except in meaningless figures. As well try to grasp the idea of God's origin, or the distance between the stars, as to put into finite comprehension the realities of this gorge. Looking backward up the walks of the great half-cylinder down which we have been winding the whole long afternoon, the hotel at the top is seen, a pebble on the heights; and looking forwa...
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