If God is light, Edison and his disciples must have glimpsed some of His
glory.
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"They shall splash at a ten league canvas with brushes of comet
hair."--Kipling's words that might be used in describing Jules Guerin's
masterful work in painting a thousand acre canvas.
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"Fair city of the sun, laved by the blue seas, glowing like a topaz
within a setting of dark cradling streets, that rose tier on tier around
it."--Whitaker's impression of the Exposition received upon entering the
Golden Gate from the sea.
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The creamy surface of the tower of jewels is studded with 125,000 great
glass jewels made in Austria and safely landed in this country, which
with the floods of light diffusing from concealed sources, creates an
illumination that is peculiarly impressive against the background of the
night's sky and often makes the Exposition grounds lighter by day than
by night.
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If Whitman was right when he said "dazzling and tremendous how quick the
sunrise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sunrise out of
me," then we do not exaggerate in saying that the sunlight has partly
spoken through the builders of the Jewel City.