Identifier: bookshelfforboys00univ019 (find matches)
Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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only abundant metal, in the world, that is yellow, is the mostprecious of them all —gold. Brass is not a true metal, but analloy, a compound. And the color which gold shares with thesun has a great deal to do with its value. I do not think itwould be possible that we should ever have come to love andadmire any metal so much, to choose it for our highest currencyand our ornaments, no matter how rare or ductile it might be,if it were of a dark, dull, gloomy color. The human eye nevergets too old to be pleased with very much the same things whichpleased it in childhood; and no eye is insensible to the charmof that precious yellow. I like sometimes to think back to the first man of all menthat ever held that rock of the sun in his savage hand, andto imagine how he found it, and how it made his sharp eyestwinkle; and how he wondered at its weight, and pounded itwith one smooth rock upon another, and found that he couldflatten it. All these things come by accident; and gold was anaccident

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