Percival Lowell — an afterglow

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Wrexie Louise Leonard. Percival Lowell — an afterglow

Percival Lowell—an afterglow

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FOREWORD

PREFACE

Prelude

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

QUOTATIONS

Quotations

QUOTATIONS

CHARACTERISTIC NOTES FROM LETTERS

THE QUOTATIONS FROM LETTERS

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Wrexie Louise Leonard

Published by Good Press, 2020

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As an explorer he stood on the tops of all the mountain peaks that came his way, and equally did he like descending to the abysms of cañons. But, indeed, he did not wait for the mountains to come to him; he sought them in the remotest corners of the earth; going to the sacred mountain of Ontaké in Japan; up the glaciers of the Alps and over the walls and chimneys of the Pyrenees. Speaking of Ontaké and the pilgrim clubs peculiar to it, he said:—

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