248 J. M. CLARKE GEOLOGY AND ORDER OF THE STATE 



nually gathered to pay an offering of oil and wine^ of milk and violets 

 to the spirits of their ancestors, from the study of whose examples they 

 gained for themselves and inculcated in others a respect for the virtuous 

 past. So we say our aves to the great past out of which we and all our 

 guiding principles in individual life, in the community, in the State, 

 have come. 



Our broader vision, which must be the bloom of our intense specializa- 

 tion, is like the dream of the patriarch who, resting his head on a pillow 

 of stone, saw a ladder reaching from this earth to heaven and beheld the 

 angels of God ascending and descending on it. 



