PANTHEISM 



1478 



PANTOMIME 



sharp-pointed Boil. 



on slender stalk? which ;. a loot in 



ily are about half th.it ! 



in Kurope. 



: B -hy. \vikl violet and carried 

 the plan ^ 



cool, me: \ A 



in 



- 

 -rung wind< 



and warmed by 



the morn i i.. 



fed by rich >>il. 



beautiful. 



So, from that 



mother violet of 

 1:0. through 



rion, have come 



v P r - Of all the bonny bud, thai 

 - i. blue. bio\v 



. In bright ur cloudy weather. 



ttd t if nil the llmxvrs thai <-onu- 



l)rmvi! hole Shelve moons to- 



gether, 



The little purple pansy brings 

 hardy, Thoughts <>r the 



saddest things. 



LDLET : 



Ease. 



and ea-ily and 

 !y izrown. 



-'i liardy. in fact, they have been 



known to bfftVC the winter weather and peep 



up through the snow. From the French word 



meaning thoiit/ltt . has come the expres- 



:DI- ihousilit>." See VIOLET. 



PAN'THEISM, the belief that Clod and the 

 one and the >:ime thing, 



md tliat (iod doe> noi e\i-t as a separate spir- 



itual being. The Dutch philosoplier. Harnch 



Spinoza (which Bee), \\:<> the moM prominent 



: rn >cholai> v.ho accepted this doctrine. 



In the p(jetry oi' Kryani. Wordsworth and other 



j. -t ion- ol" a patithe- 



ifltk \ i >d and the world. The term 



,-ed in the KHW Of 



i ' i- derived from two 

 Creek words meaning all and i/inl. 



PAN'THEON, in gen-r:d. :uiy temple dedi- 

 o all the jrods. l)llt more .-pecific.-dly a 

 moil- temple of that type m Home. The 

 Pantheon, built in 27 H. < ., \\a- de- 

 i by lightning, and the pn-rnt -tructure 

 :ilt in A. D. 123 by Hadrian. Later em- 

 dtered or add' 'hat it became 



what it. is to-day the finest architectural work 

 of the ancient Homati-. It is circular in form. 

 .- feet in interior diameter, and 



Mine, the apex of which is 1 12 feel 



above the iloor. The only light which enters 

 the building comes from a window 27 feet in 

 diameter at the summit of tin 4 dome. A most 

 striking feature is the portico with its MMeen 

 Corinthian column- each hewn out of a 

 -ingle -tone. The Pantheon i- in an almo-i 

 perp ' ion. and ha- been used 



-nice the seveiuh century a- a Chn-tian church. 

 Raphael is buried 1 1 



Among modern buildings which bear this 

 name the nio-i celebrated i- i he church in Paris 

 which is more correctly styled the Church of 

 Saint Cenevieve. The rabid ivvolut ioni>t.< di 

 crated ihe building, and to show their contempt' 



THK I'AXTIIKMX. IX PARIS 



for Chris! ianitv and their preference for the 

 heathen faith, called it the Pantheon. li ha< 

 been reconsecrated a- a church, but the name 

 persist-. Many great men are buried in the 

 Pantheon. 



PAN'THER, a name used somewhat loosely 

 to designate certain member- of the cat family. 

 It is applied to the Icttfuml, which is a native 

 of A-ia and Africa, and to the /mnia of North 

 America, known also as the rninjnr and ih- 

 American linn. Some authorities apply th-- 

 name only to large leopards, but this distinc- 

 tion is not commonly observed. Full <l 

 t ion- of the leopard and the puma will be found 

 in these volumes under the proper headings. 



PANTOMIME, pan' toh in hut , a term de- 

 rived from Creek words meaning nil mimic. 

 It wa- not. at fir-t. the name of a kind of play. 



