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AN ANCIENT LIGHTHOUSE. JUDGMENT AND ENERGY.
THE MYSTERY AND WONDER OF
PHAROS.
BASIS OF SUCCESS.
MR. SHFRIDGE ON WORK,
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A recent issue of the Wustrated London.
Tu conection, with the City of London ( News contained a lasiunting article on Thie
in Education, Mr. | Submerged Harbours of Alexandria: A Vacation. Carse Historical Mystery, by Mr. A, Forestier, į Gordon SeUridge, the merchant, prinse,?? The chief feature of these mighty 'ancient on August 14, gave an address in which harged teachers to realise that the works was the famois Pharyy lighthous This life (according to Strids was young people in their change would in a made of white marble, aul was of perfect ¦ few years decomas part of the hack home, proportions. It was one of the sten won) if this country. Was it not, therefore, dors of the warld.
he asked, a great privilege to be in the
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A bok, Pharos and Pharïlles, les, just porition to direct the killing of char been issued by the Hogarth, Press, Rich-jacter of your people { it seemed unl nond, Surres (399) in which the author, him, that sur" who would seek financial! E. M. Forster, mucrates in piva pungent success in us not 'take up the duties of! style a few antiquo esents groupsd under a teacher, just an great financial superess the heading Phansa while, ip mealern did not
to the clergyman, wr Gevent and tis personal fupansione ha Ems painter,, ur wulptor, »· Universities weer given the name of Phurillon," the abscure, not established for taking money, for Salesoir of "Phares" which ching for were the great musents; they were in- a time by the low rock'of Sibilen and then 'tonded to give people a finer" pharneter slid observed into the Medisterranes. and a better proportion of the desirable cie the building of the Phares lightheualities which made then into good in ancient days, Mr. Forster writes:-
BEACON TO THE IMAGINATION. A Bighthouse was a pecessity. The const "of Egypt is, in its western section. buth that a rocky, and ships-tedded a land- turk to show them where Alestolivia lay and a guide through the reefs that block hey harbours. Pharos was the obvions gite becure it steal in front of the eity; and un Pharus the misters promontory, because it, commanded the more important of the two harlours the Royal But it is out clear whether a divine madness abo seized upon the builders, whether they deliber ately wingel raginering with
citizens. "So the truchegs of the land oes cupies that splendid position. The chur urter of young people was just being formed, and it was well to remember how ! a passing word, perhaps criticism, had" made them think seriously, and in think to hail helped to form character, So. the opportunity which came to teachers every day and werk to help to make the character of young people under their| control stronger and free, was most help. ful. There were certain taibes they could!
Children could be and teneb. not in books.
At taught the value of time, of which every, all events they succeeded, and the arts individud had an equal amount. Tine combined with since to prais chris triumph. Parthenon had
tried to nid wonder to the
was the most precious of all things, and
trample, Just as the rhaul on. Peter's it could be awyd in many different ways.
Th
so be identified with Rome, Sr, to the
He urged as strongly as he could thatị imagination of temporaries. Pirki
Became Alindria as Alex they should teach young people really andria the Phapus. Never, in the history the love of work. To him life Wats of architecture has serular building been
thes sership and takes on a spiritual delightful and a magnificent thing, and hte of its own. It beaconed to the ima- he could not understand the cities of kill Kination not only to ships, and long after
They cald not accomplish much with
it ligh was extinguished mineries of iting time and enjoy the privilege glowed in the minds of men. Perhaps it living.
merely very large: revonstructions | Mek a chill, and the minaret, its moder destinat, is not supremely beautiful. out work It was the privilege of tra Something
very large to which people got thers to put into the minds of chidren' na Liberty Statur,, an Eiffel Tower?
not drudgery, but The peddling must be faced, and is not that work was exéluded by the esstasies of the pinota, as splendid thing. Laziness was 'not a de The lighthouse was fuade of Meal Time-sirable thing, and ought not to be en- man of markde, iki of reddish-purple couraged. Will should control the mind grate from Assonan. It stood in a colon-
Bade rourt that covered root of the pro- as well as the body, and he believed the montory. There were four stories. The man of, quod health and fair strength bolum story was over 200 feet higli could do almost anything of a physical Square, pierced with windows. Ip and enterial nature that he desired. it were the rooms (estimated at 300) where The basis of all success in any depart the mechanics and keepers were used, ment of effort was judgment. It could be and its mass was threaded by a spiral strengthened and improved, and whether asemt, probably by a double spiral There the individual was born with little or no may have been hydraulic machinery in judgment he could be inspired, taught, the central well for raising the fuel to the and encouraged to use better judginent. top; otherwise weinust imagine a pruers. That was a leading characteristic or sida f denkeys who ceasy unt night and day to circumambalate the spiruls with quality they should try to instil in the fods of wad upon their backs. The story ninds of young people. Fergy was un saded in a cornice and in statues of other important thing, and energy and Tritans
judgment together were a wonderful] pair and made a very difficus man to beat. L'ereverance should also be cul- tivated, and ambition
THE LASTERN.
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The road story was ectogonal and en. tirely ulfed by the ascending spirals. The third story was eirentur. ten came the quality, although it might be carried, too latern. The lantern is a puzzle, because far. i night he described as a game a bonfire and defienté scientifé strubentor, au ndeenture-a great splendid game appone to have shared its narrow aren. which they should play as well as they Viators speak, for instance, of a mysteri- could, anys above board, and always. Dug For
up there, which was supplernating their best judgment, per more wonderful than the building its severane, and energy. Another charag why didn't this mirror crack, and what teristic, earest to Godlike, was the was it? A polished steel reflecter for the splendid beautiful thing called imagina- fit at night or for a hebograph by day! tion. It was the mother of originalitys
of Menu wruers escribe it as made
it was like a great tornado blowing wrought glass or transparent stone, rind delare that when they sat under if they through forest. Was it not delightful could see ships at son that were invig beyond words to put into the young to the unked eye. A telescope? It co-growing mind the thought that imagina- ceivable that the Alerandrian school of tion could make it a finer, more beautiful! mathematis and methandies discovered the character! To lay the seed which would tans and that their discovery was lost and start the growth of angination, or forgotten when the Phares fell it is energy, or judgment, or strength of possible the discovering of Aristar purpose which meant perseverance and chus were forgotten, and Galileo persen continur! Was it not delightful to see el for reviving them. It is certain that young people grow into stronger and
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the lighthouse was equipped with every liner immbers of the State. That was 67; QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRIL sentite improvement known to the age, the nginlege of teachers. The spirit of
that it was the outward expresion of the the house with which he was connected studies pursued in the Stuseum Herc the straite, nu that its architect could have consulted not only Aristarchus, but Erato-thes, Apollonius of Pergn, ngu
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Standing on the lantern, at the height of 500 feet above the ground, a statue of Poseidon gave a Geek nie to Africa sees from the sea. Other works of art are also reported; for example, statur who finger followed the diurnal course of the WIN, AL second statue who gave out with varying and melodious voies the suriuus hours of the day, and a third who shoutmel at alarm as soon as a hostile flotilla set sil, from any foreign part. This lust must belong to an even more remarkable build- ing, the Phures of legend,
The lighthouse was the key of the Alex andrian defences, and Casar occupied, it before attacking the city. It was also the pivot of a igualding system that stret died along the const
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"Demolition' began and before thu Alex: andrini who knew better, could intervene. the anime had fallen and was sinashed ont the ranks beneath Henceforward the Pharos is only a stump with a bonfire on the top. The Arabs made sine restor tions. hat they were substantial addi tles to the octagon, which the wind could blow away Structural repairs were neg fected, and in the twelfth century the second disaster occurred-the fall of the vetagu through ALL earthquake. The square bot
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