Summer circa 1874, Torreya, Merced Cañon Image 2

Creator

John Muir

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[eve] [puple] [ ] cld [ ] mingled with Florida Keys of rills all one grand harmony ever changing ever perfect. [ ] through the ages. “The mtn’s holier vision bring them e’er in vales arise. As brightest sunshine bathes the [ ] that’s nearest to the skies” Not so. Visions of holiness are pure & abundant in vales as on mtns, only the holiness is of a less conspicuous palpable kind. The holy sublimities of the mountains shoot themselves into the dullest [carcase] through all the painted mail of miseducation & mispropriety but those of the vales—the

Date Original

circa July 1874

Source

Original journal dimensions: 9 x 14.5 cm.

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MuirReel24Journal04P01.tif

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Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

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