Article April 15, 1911 Issue

One may hold communion with the Grand Cañon of...

Will Allen White

One may hold communion with the Grand Cañon of the Colorado as with great music; with the monody of the ocean, or with any of those big primitive expressions of the force that moves the universe, whether through man in art or through what we call nature, as God made it. No better proof is needed of the existence of a dominant mind through all the universe than the consideration of how, on the one hand, the great passionate outbursts of the masters are art—great symphonies, great paintings, great messages to men, through words or symbols—and of how, on the other hand, the sights and sounds of stark, untamed nature rouse the human soul from its lethargy in the same miraculous fashion. The God that moves through "Lear" and "Lohengrin," is He who "plants his footsteps on the sea" and "rides upon the storm." The pilgrim to the cañon must not go as one who visits a peep-show or a freak of nature, but approach it as Moses came to the burning bush.

Will Allen White.

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