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  H. 
  A. 
  Newton 
  — 
  The 
  Worship 
  of 
  Meteorites. 
  

  

  the 
  silver 
  shrines 
  of 
  the 
  goddess, 
  and 
  who 
  saw 
  that 
  their 
  craft 
  

   was 
  in 
  danger 
  if 
  men 
  learned 
  to 
  regard 
  Artemis 
  as 
  no 
  real 
  

   divinity, 
  and 
  to 
  despise 
  the 
  image 
  that 
  fell 
  down 
  from 
  the 
  sky. 
  

  

  We 
  cannot 
  suppose 
  that 
  the 
  Ephesian 
  Artemis 
  image 
  of 
  the 
  

   first 
  century 
  was 
  a 
  meteorite, 
  though 
  we 
  have 
  the 
  distinct 
  appel- 
  

   lation, 
  Diipetes, 
  fallen 
  from 
  the 
  sky. 
  But 
  I 
  believe 
  that 
  there 
  

   was 
  a 
  meteoric 
  stone 
  that 
  was 
  the 
  original 
  of 
  the 
  Ephesian 
  

   images, 
  and 
  it 
  seems 
  not 
  at 
  all 
  improbable 
  that 
  in 
  some 
  one 
  of 
  

   the 
  destructions 
  of 
  the 
  temple 
  it 
  disappeared. 
  Or, 
  in 
  the 
  

   progress 
  of 
  time, 
  there 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  a 
  desire 
  to 
  represent 
  the 
  

   goddess 
  in 
  a 
  more 
  artistic 
  form 
  than 
  the 
  shapeless 
  stone 
  

   afforded. 
  

  

  Many 
  forms 
  of 
  the 
  Ephesian 
  Artemis 
  are 
  still 
  preserved, 
  

   and 
  they 
  have, 
  amid 
  all 
  their 
  variations, 
  a 
  certain 
  peculiar 
  

   character 
  in 
  common. 
  That 
  common 
  character 
  seems 
  to 
  

   me 
  to 
  confirm 
  the 
  statement 
  that 
  the 
  original 
  image 
  fell 
  from 
  

   heaven. 
  This 
  goddess 
  is 
  regarded, 
  let 
  me 
  say, 
  as 
  different 
  

   from 
  the 
  Grecian 
  Artemis, 
  the 
  beautiful 
  huntress 
  so 
  well 
  known 
  

   in 
  G-reek 
  art, 
  and 
  I 
  am 
  speaking 
  only 
  of 
  the 
  images 
  of 
  the 
  

   Ephesian 
  Artemis. 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  one 
  peculiarity 
  in 
  the 
  outward 
  forms 
  of 
  the 
  meteor- 
  

   ites 
  that 
  is 
  characteristic 
  of 
  nearly 
  all 
  of 
  them. 
  I 
  mean 
  the 
  

   molded 
  forms, 
  and 
  the 
  depressions 
  all 
  over 
  the 
  surfaces. 
  They 
  

   are 
  better 
  appreciated 
  by 
  being 
  seen, 
  than 
  by 
  any 
  description 
  

   I 
  can 
  give 
  you. 
  They 
  are 
  common 
  to 
  meteorites 
  of 
  all 
  kinds, 
  

   from 
  the 
  most 
  friable 
  stone 
  to 
  the 
  most 
  compact 
  iron. 
  (I 
  show 
  

   you 
  one, 
  a 
  stone 
  from 
  Iowa 
  — 
  also 
  the 
  plaster 
  cast 
  of 
  another, 
  a 
  

   stone 
  from 
  some 
  fall, 
  I 
  know 
  not 
  which 
  one.) 
  Those 
  who 
  have 
  

   recently 
  visited 
  the 
  collection 
  in 
  the 
  Peabody 
  Museum 
  may 
  

   recollect 
  the 
  model 
  of 
  an 
  iron 
  that 
  fell 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  years 
  ago 
  

   in 
  Arkansas, 
  which 
  displays 
  most 
  beautifully 
  these 
  depres- 
  

   sions. 
  

  

  Let 
  now 
  an 
  artist 
  attempt 
  to 
  idealise 
  any 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  molded 
  

   forms, 
  and 
  to 
  make 
  something 
  like 
  a 
  human 
  shape 
  out 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  

   them. 
  He 
  must 
  necessarily 
  set 
  it 
  upright, 
  and 
  he 
  must 
  give 
  it 
  a 
  

   head. 
  You 
  have 
  then 
  a 
  head 
  surmounting 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  

   molded 
  forms. 
  Let 
  now 
  the 
  convenience 
  and 
  the 
  taste 
  of 
  the 
  

   artificers 
  of 
  the 
  images 
  have 
  some 
  liberty 
  to 
  act 
  — 
  and 
  we 
  know 
  

   that 
  they 
  did 
  act, 
  for 
  we 
  have 
  considerable 
  variety 
  in 
  these 
  

   images 
  — 
  and 
  a 
  development 
  in 
  the 
  conventional 
  representation 
  

   of 
  the 
  image 
  is 
  sure 
  to 
  follow 
  - 
  

  

  [The 
  lecture 
  closed 
  with 
  the 
  exhibition 
  of 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  lantern 
  

   pictures 
  showing 
  the 
  forms 
  of 
  some 
  typical 
  meteorites.] 
  

  

  