Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Carved in stone at Union Station...

Sometime it's very good to just to take a deep breathe and look around and read these words carved all over Washington. Union Station is especially good to get the American spirit, that fin de siecle ethos of 100 years ago. Imagine the amazement of the telegraph or even radio when Pony Express seemed so quick to travel so far.


Aside the inscriptions are Apollo (Imagination or Inspiration)  and Ceres (Agriculture).

THE FARM - BEST HOME OF THE FAMILY - MAIN

SOURCE OF NATIONAL WEALTH - FOUNDATION OF

CIVILIZED SOCIETY - THE NATURAL PROVIDENCE



THE OLD MECHANIC ARTS CONTROLLING NEW

FORCES BUILD NEW HIGHWAYS FOR GOODS

AND MEN OVERRIDE THE OCEAN AND MAKE

THE VERY ETHER CARRY HUMAN THOUGHT



THE DESERT SHALL REJOICE AND BLOSSOM

AS THE ROSE

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