Let the temperature of a lake fall to the freezing-point;
apply a piece of ice to it and see the radiating lines of
crystallization shoot singing from that center of force in all
directions, while other rays start from their thousand nodes of
maximum intensity, until the whole surface of the water becomes
a solid sheet of ice. Just so the Roman empires, east and west,
were subjected to a superficial crystallization of Christianity
started in Judea by Jesus Christ.--J. P. LESLEY, _The
Forum_.
(420)