the presence of a human spirit greater than his
own.
FOOTNOTES:
[58] This Address has been already printed in three forms,--(_a_) in a
pamphlet printed at Cambridge "for the committee of the School of Art,"
by Naylor & Co., _Chronicle_ office, 1858; (_b_) in a second pamphlet,
Cambridge, Deighton & Bell; London, Bell & Daldy, 1858; and (_c_) a new
edition, published for Mr. Ruskin by Mr. George Allen in 1879. The first
of these pamphlets contains, in addition to the address, a full account
of the "inaugural soiree" at which it was read, and a report of speeches
then made by Mr. Redgrave, R.A., and Mr. George Cruikshank; and both the
first and second pamphlet also contain a few introductory words spoken,
by Mr. Ruskin, before proceeding to deliver his address.--ED.
[59] See "A Joy For Ever," Sec. 113, and "Time and Tide," Sec. 78.--ED.
[60] I ought perhaps to remind the reader that this statement refers to
two different societies among the Alps; the Waldenses in the 13th, and
the people of the Forest Cantons in the 14th and following centuries.
Protestants are perhaps apt sometimes to forget that the virtues of
these mountaineers were shown in connection with vital forms of opposing
religions; and that the patriots of Schwytz and Uri were as zealous
Roman Catholics as they were good soldiers. We have to lay to their
charge the death of Zuinglius as well as of Gessler.
[61] The summit of Rocca-Melone is the sharp peak seen from Turin on the
right hand of the gorge of the Cenis, dominant over the low projecting
pyramid of the hill called by De Saussure Montagne de Musinet.
Rocca-Melone rises to a height of 11,000 feet above the sea, and its
peak is a place of pilgrimage to this day, though it seems temporarily
to have ceased to be so in the time of De Saussure, who thus speaks of
it:
"Il y a eu pendant longtemps sur cette cime, une petite chapelle avec
une image de Notre Dame qui etoit en grande veneration dans le pays, et
ou un grand nombre de gens alloient au mois d'aout en procession, de
Suze et des environs; mais le sentier qui conduit a cette chapelle est
si etroit et si scabreux qu'il n'y avoit presque pas d'annees qu'il n'y
perit du monde; la fatigue et la rarete de l'air saisissoient ceux qui
avoient plutot consulte leur devotion que leurs forces; ils tomberent en
defalliance, et de la dans le precipice."
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THE CESTUS OF AGLAIA.
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