This Goodly Frame the Earth; Stray Impressions of Scenes, Incidents And Persons in a Journey Touching Japan, China, Egypt, Palestine And Greece
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And yet, I repeat it, it is a good thing once and forever to have gone through this purgatory, — to use the milder word. A cairn of gigantic blocks of stone, covering at the base over thirteen acres, and rising to a height of nearly five hundred feet, built solid moreover, with the exception of a few narrow passages, from skin to core, is certainly the most stupendous feat of the wrestle of mind with brute matter the round world can show. Further- more, as psychologists^ assure us, the role pla...yed by the muscular sense in all adequate appreciation of phenomena of weight is indispensable as a mental standard. Therefore, given a solid stone staircase, with risers averaging four to five feet, and a twenty- THE GIZEH PYRAMIDS 275 eight-inch stretch of legs to surmount them with, and, before one is up three hundred and fifty feet, he has developed into a self-conscious derrick and apparatus of blocks and hawsers that will thence- forth enable him to weigh to a hair every colossal column or architrave he later on encounters in Egypt.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And yet, I repeat it, it is a good thing once and forever to have gone through this purgatory, — to use the milder word. A cairn of gigantic blocks of stone, covering at the base over thirteen acres, and rising to a height of nearly five hundred feet, built solid moreover, with the exception of a few narrow passages, from skin to core, is certainly the most stupendous feat of the wrestle of mind with brute matter the round world can show. Further- more, as psychologists^ assure us, the role pla...yed by the muscular sense in all adequate appreciation of phenomena of weight is indispensable as a mental standard. Therefore, given a solid stone staircase, with risers averaging four to five feet, and a twenty- THE GIZEH PYRAMIDS 275 eight-inch stretch of legs to surmount them with, and, before one is up three hundred and fifty feet, he has developed into a self-conscious derrick and apparatus of blocks and hawsers that will thence- forth enable him to weigh to a hair every colossal column or architrave he later on encounters in Egypt.
What to read after This Goodly Frame the Earth; Stray Impressions of Scenes, Incidents And Persons in a Journey Touching Japan, China, Egypt, Palestine And Greece?
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