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The lightning-conductors of the powder-magazine were blown down." 1837, August 2. All the ships in the harbor of San Juan were lost. 1840, September 16. No details. 1851, August 18. No details, except that this hurricane caused considerable damage. 1867, October 29. 1871, August 23.
This course of granite is grooved to receive the flange of the lower plates of the tower, from which lightning-conductors are to be continued to the sea. The tower is of course itself a lightning-conductor of the best kind.
Through them Fascism became a political doctrine to itself, different, by comparison, to all others whether contemporary or of the past. I said then, "If the bourgeoisie think we are ready to act as lightning-conductors, they are mistaken. We must go towards labour. We wish to train the working classes to directive functions.
This meteoric dust, as it is called, consists of minute particles of iron, which are thought to fall from the highest part of the atmosphere, or possibly to be attracted to the earth from space. Lightning usually strikes the roof. The whole subject of lightning-conductors has been re-opened of late years, there being reason to think that mistakes have been made in the manner of their erection.
Half-naked savages roamed, dancing and groaning and scourging their flesh, from city to city, under the stress of semi-bestial impulses. Then came the period of organized pilgrimages. The celebrated shrines of Europe Rome, Compostella, Monte Gargano, Canterbury acted like lightning-conductors to the tempestuous devotion of the mediæval races, like setons to their over-charged imagination.
The night closed in, and the fine rain, which had begun to fall in the afternoon, shrouded the vast markets in a leaden gloom. They loomed darkly against the copper-tinted sky, while wisps of murky cloud skimmed by almost on a level with the roofs, looking as though they were caught and torn by the points of the lightning-conductors.
One may discover further ingenious devices, lightning-conductors to mitigate the stroke; but gently or violently a natural force will have its way, and the new earth which it is preparing needs new seed. That we have been given the faculty to shape a new spirit does not imply that we are at liberty to choose whether we shall do it or not.
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