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Title: With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Stall, Sylvanus, 1847-1915
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r emery, or something of that kind, other men 116 THE POLISHED STONE, ground and polished the face of the stone until it became very beautiful. Now, if these stones had had feeling, you can see at once that they would have objected to being chiselled and cut, and carved, and ground,and polished. Thisprocess would havehurt so much that thestones would havecried out, and askedto be delivered fromsuch a painful pro-cess. It is related ofMichael Angelo,that one day he waspassing a quarrywhere large blocksof beautiful marblewere being takenout. In one largeblock he saw a beau-tiful angel. Heordered the block tobe taken to his Stones Being Polished. . j» .1 1 5 studio, or the place where he studied and worked. And then he put his men at workto chisel off the rough corners, and thus to deliver the angel out ofthe rough pieces by which it was surrounded. After many daysand weeks, and perhaps months of working, in which this largeblock of marble had to submit to a great deal of chiselling and
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