Part 9 (1/2)

VII ARITHMETIC Having built your house, young people, and understanding the light of heaven, and the measures of earth, you may marry--and can't do better And here is now your conclusive science, which you will have to apply, all your days, to all your affairs

The Science of Number Infinite in sole, of course, whatever was known of the higher abstract mathematics and mysteries of numbers, but reverenced especially in its vital necessity to the prosperity of fadoms, and first fully so understood here in coers bent, two straight, sole on your attention her primal lao and two are--four, you observe,--not five, as those accursed usurers think

Under her, Pythagoras

Above,money Have you ever chanced to read carefully Carlyle's account of the foundation of the existing Prussian empire, in economy?

You can, at all events, consider with yourself a little, what empire this queen of the terrestrial sciences ood use; or what depth and breadth of application there is in the brief parables of the counted cost of Power, and nuive a very minor, but characteristic, instance I have always felt that with ht to have been able toof Chaive people raph; but I alanted to do it as I saw it, and engrave pine for pine, and crag for crag, like Albert Durer

I brokeofthe leaves drop off, or the snow coun what I meant to do If I had only _counted_ my pines first, and calculated the number of hours necessary to do them in thetime of some five years, spent in vain effort

But Turner counted his pines, and did all that could be done for them, and rested content with that

So in all the affairs of life, the arithmetical part of the business is the dominant one How many and how much have we? How many and how much do ant? How constantly does noble Arithmetic of the finite lose itself in base Avarice of the Infinite, and in blind i of h?

In counting our days, is she ever severe enough? Hoe shrink fro, in their decades, the diminished store of theht to nu?

_Technical Points_--The Pythagoras alures, from this inclusive to the outer wall, I have not been able to exa beyond the Geometry

Here then we have the su to the Florentine mind--necessary to the secular education of lish gentleentlewoman know usually only a little of the last, and entirely hate the prudent applications of that: being unacquainted, except as they chance here and there to pick up a broken piece of infor able to play the piano and adeoic, or the use of reason, theonistic to its use by anybody else

We are now to read the series of the Divine sciences, beginning at the opposite side, next the

VIII CIVIL LAW Civil, or 'of citizens,' not only as distinguished from Ecclesiastical, but from Local law She is the universal Justice of the peaceful relations of lobe, with its _three_ quarters, white, as being justly governed, in her left hand

She is also the law of eternal equity, not erring statute; therefore holds her sword _level_ across her breast She is the foundation of all other divine science To know anything whatever about God, youJust

Dressed in red, which in these frescoes is always a sign of power, or zeal; but her face very calentle and beautiful Her hair bound close, and crowned by the royal circlet of gold, with pure thirteenth century strawberry leaf ornament

Under her, the Eold; the face in profile, very beautiful The iht hand, the Institutes in his left

Medallion, a figure, apparently in distress, appealing for justice

(Trajan's suppliant ?)

_Technical Points_--The three divisions of the globe in her hand were originally inscribed ASIA, AFRICA, EUROPE The restorer has ingeniously changed AF into AME--RICA Faces, both of the science and emperor, little retouched, nor any of the rest altered

IX CHRISTIAN LAW After the justice which rules men, comes that which rules the Church of Christ The distinction is not between secular law, and ecclesiastical authority, but between the equity of humanity, and the law of Christian discipline

In full, straight-falling, golden robe, hite ht raised, with the forefinger lifted; (indicating heavenly source of all Christian law? or warning?)

Head-dress, a white veil floating into folds in the air You will find nothing in these frescoes without significance; and as the escaping hair of Geoher orders, so the floating veil here indicates that the higher relations of Christian justice are indefinable So her golden lorious and excellent justice beyond that which unchristianlines of the folds, which forabled niche for the head of the Pope beneath, correspond with the strictness of true Church discipline firmer as well as more luminous statute