their power than the baser country did under that of nobler
men?

These, and collateral questions, I mean to work out as I can, with
Carlyle's good help;--but must pause for this time; in doubt, as
heretofore. Only of this one thing I doubt not, that the name of all
great kings, set over Christian nations, must at last be, in fufilment,
the hereditary one of these German princes, "Rich in Peace;" and that
their coronation will be with Wild olive, not with gold.

FOOTNOTES:

[142] The late Sir Herbert Edwardes.

[143] I would much rather print these passages of Carlyle in large
golden letters than small black ones; but they are only here at all for
unlucky people who can't read them with the context.

THE

ETHICS OF THE DUST

TEN LECTURES

TO

LITTLE HOUSEWIVES

ON

THE ELEMENTS OF CRYSTALLISATION

CONTENTS.

ETHICS OF THE DUST.

LECTURE I. PAGE

THE VALLEY OF DIAMONDS 1

LECTURE II.

THE PYRAMID BUILDERS 21

LECTURE III.

THE CRYSTAL LIFE 31

LECTURE IV.

THE CRYSTAL ORDERS 43

LECTURE V.

CRYSTAL VIRTUES 56

LECTURE VI.

CRYSTAL QUARRELS 70

LECTURE VII.

HOME VIRTUES 82

LECTURE VIII.

CRYSTAL CAPRICE 98

LECTURE IX.

CRYSTAL SORROWS 111

LECTURE X.

THE CRYSTAL REST 125

NOTES 143

FICTION--FAIR AND FOUL 153

ELEMENTS OF DRAWING.

LETTER I.

ON FIRST PRACTICE 233

LETTER II.

SKETCHING FROM NATURE 293

LETTER III.

ON COLOUR AND COMPOSITION 331

APPENDIX: THINGS TO BE STUDIED 403

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

ELEMENTS OF DRAWING.

FIGURE PAGE

1. SQUARES 237

2. GRADATED SPACES 241

3. OUTLINE OF LETTER 245

4. OUTLINE OF BOUGH OF TREE 248

5. CHARRED LOG 257

6. SHOOT OF LILAC 272

7. LEAF 274

8. BOUGH OF PHILLY