New Tables of Stone

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Excerpt from New Tables of Stone: And Other EssaysMeru of Hindu imagination, down to Helicon, Ida, and a dozen different heights called Olympus. There the gods were thought to dwell or come. There they gave laws and revelations to men - Ormuzd to Zoroaster on the high Persian mount, Zeus to Minos on the Cretan Dicte, Jehovah to Moses on Sinai. There they Showed themselves by storms -from the great Olympian god whose attribute was the thunderbolt and whose common Homeric name was the cloud gatherer, to the god of Israel who proved his pres ence by thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount.Poetic minds still find truth enough in such thoughts. In our own Colorado is a spot which even a prosaic generation has named the garden of the gods, and on the high mountain-peak overlooking it, the sights of old story are often seen. There, too, that thick cloud upon the mount still comes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.