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2 give promise of indefinite de- velopment - 'it doth not appear what they shall be', but Ruskin leaves us nothing to
hope in the direction of after development All of his attainments all of his hopes are bounded by surfaces definite as those
of a crystal He is suggestive instructive in every way well worthy of perusal He makes one think his errors absurdities are
so clearly ex- pressed they do good rather than harm His beauties are numberless page after page is studded with flowers like
a glacier meadow I have never experienced his Mtn gloom wh doubtless is a bogle humbug; Nor have I seen any of that fierce
convulsive energy said to manifest itself in Mtn tops But the worst thing I find in his book is his lack of faith in 9186
3 the scriptures of Nature. He says we must not dwell in contrast with Natures beauty else we will become blind to it just
as if God had not Mtns composed of Strip of evil good, work made beauty an ocean in wh we of God of Satan will dwell forever
Evil he says always exists with good ugliness with beauty in order to act as foils the one for the other. - Beside every mtn
angel he sits a mtn devil. Here I want to say so much that I cannot say anything Only he is an infidel to Nature knows nothing
about her, Kalmia one of the very dearest of my Mountain flowers A companion of Bryanthus Cassiope, one of the purest words
of love that God has ever uttered on mountain meadow he calls, A type of deceit because when he eats it, it poisons him -
unfit for his belly, a good English reason Kalmia Kills men sheep