A Monument of Human Intellect and SkiJl which has Captured the Imagination of the People of All Nations rendered many subsidiary types of service in times of peace, He wrote: "The Wall had its use in keeping from the fertile proves of China the numerous feracinua hearts that haunt tHe wilds of Tae-
Mr. L, Newton Hayes, who has peculiar qualifications to' speak on the subject gave a lantern lecture before a large attendance of members of the Union Church Guild, Tientsin, recently. His lecture, as reported in the "Peking & Tientsin Times" is as follows:—
It is probable that no existing monument of human intellect and skill has captured and held the imagination of people of all nations as has the Great Wall of China. Its colossal length, its venerable age, and the almost superhuman toil involved in its construction have made it the outstanding wonder of the ancient World that remains to us to-day.
The pyramids of Ghizch may claim a more venerable antiquity: the Parthenon at Athens may excel it in beauty; the Coliseum of Ves-asian at Rome may exhibit finer engineering skill, bat the Wall of Chin Shih Huang 7 surpasses them all in the magnitude and daring of its undertaking the industry and patience ex ced upon its construction Visible from Astronomers tell us that of all the works of man's creation the tary us well as to fix the boundary between the two count scending again to low levels in its tortuous course, finally mounts, at its western terminal, to an altitude of nearly a mile above the level of ostend of ending: abruptly against the side of some lofty mountain, or losing itself in the sandy plains (as we might easily imagine it does), Dr. W. E. Gell, who travelled along the Wail to its Western end, found that the rear structure comes to an impressive and fitting non the very edge of a precipice overlooking the waters of prevent the escape of m out of China and the emigration vf malcontents."
Although the Great Wall is placed in the catalogue of the p cipal marvels of the world, one out-structure from each of the 0 wonders" noted in classical literature. That difference is found in the fact that although it served riy ends, yet it was primarily with 'a great useful purpose in the mind of its architect the Great North River, near the border of Tibet.
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ing westward from Shanhaikuan struction of the giant barr but seems to divide itself into five it is not improbable that before sections "of more or less. regular the Wall was completed a million allie and equal lengths. The first. two ions traverse a mountainous {ditterent labourers had shared the labour Since the need for the district. Mere the workmanship is a pressing one, the of an excellent quality and the Inbourers were driven to their work Wall is in the best state of pre-by cruel tiskemasters who were servation, The last three sections Vestieas in thely dive of. supers front the Ordos country, the desert and the lofty Alt Moi tana
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