How charming is divine philosophy! MILTON. Comus. Line 476. Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. CARLYLE. Proposition touching Amendment of Laws. In books lies the soul of the whole past time. Heroes and Hero Worship: The Hero as a Man of Letters. Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words. EMERSON. Essays. The Poet. Reading maketh a full man; conference, a ready man; and writing, an exact man. BACON. Essays. Of Studies. Science is organized knowledge. HERBERT SPENCER. Essays Scientific, Political, and Speculative. Vol. iii. Beauty is truth; truth, beauty. KEATS. Ode on a Grecian Urn. ABOVE THE SYMBOLICAL STATUES. What doth the Lord require of thee, but to Commerce MICAH. vi., 8. We taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth. SIR DUDLEY NORTH. East India Trade. History. One God, one law, one element, To which the whole creation moves. Art. TENNYSON. In Memoriam: Conclusion. As one lamp lights another, nor grows less, Philosophy. LOWELL. Yussouf. The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth, is the sovereign good of human nature. Poetry. Law. BACON. Essays. Of Truth. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her voice is the harmony of the world. HOOKER. Ecclesiastical Polity. Bk. i., Ch. 16. Science. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork. PSALM Xix., I. IN THE DOME, CONNECTED WITH THE TWELVE TYPICAL FIGURES, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. England: A fac-simile of the title page of France: "Les Droits de l'Homme." The IN THE PAVILION OF THE SEALS. The Great Seal of the United States, with its motto, E Plaribus Unum. Out of many, one. HORACE. Ep. ii., 2, 212; VIRGIL. Moretum. Line 104. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. E Pluribus Unum. United States of America. Thesaur. Amer. Septent. Sigil. (An abrevi- NAVY DEPARTMENT. United States of America. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. This we'll defend. MDCCLXXVIII. War Office. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. and Commerce. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. United States of America DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Qui pro domina justitia sequitur. Who follows Justice as a sovereign. -:: That the nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.* LINCOLN. Speech at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863. 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world. WASHINGTON. Farewell Address, September 19, 1796. Let our object be our country, our whole WEBSTER. Address at Charlestown, Mass., Thank God! I-I also-am an American. Monument. *Government of the people, by the people, for the people." is inscribed upon a tablet in the painting GOVERNMENT, by Elihu Vedder. The aggregate happiness of society is, or ought to be, the end of all government. WASHINGTON. Political Maxims. To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. WASHINGTON. Speech to Congress, January 8, 1790. The agricultural interest of the country is connected with every other, and superior in importance to them all. ANDREW JACKSON. Message to Congress, December 8, 1829. Let us have peace. U. S. GRANT. Letter accepting nomination to the Presidency, May 29, 1868. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none. THOMAS JEFFERSON. Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801. IN THE HOUSE READING ROOM. In addition to the artistic reproduction of the Seals of the various States and Territories, chiefly with their obverse mottoes, the seven colors of the solar spectrum are typically combined with the paintings and inscriptions in the seven sumptuously decorated ceiling panels. CENTRAL PANEL. LET THERE BE LIGHT. Genesis, i., 3. (Yellow.) Gloria virtutis umbra. Glory the shadow of CIC. Tusc. Quæst, i., 45. |