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Show 308 TIIB LllJE!l.TY lH~LL. C\'Cf WOrshipped the bell. H is a mountain of metal full of lifo, a tumulus concealing n. perpetual OJ·ncle. The clapper is tho Druid himself, impris· oncd in his Dolmen, like God in Ilca.vcn, like Law in Nature, warning, pleading, inviting, pre· dieting, juclging, ruling all things. llcnco the significant ringings of bolls adapted themselves to death also and burial. Tho bells could toll as well as chime, when the tnmulus became for tho bard and the baron a tomb. For the word Tor, a mountain, became in other dialects 11el, and also '!'om, and every bell was once callecl a '!'om. '!'he English villagers still speak of tho " Tom o' York," and tho great "Tom o' Lincoln." Tho same idea gave birth to the architectural Dome, with the snored Cupola upon its summit. As for the name bell, it bears a similar etymological relation to such words as p ole and pile in English, ball and bale, and many such in foreign tongues used to express a. single isolated mass or heap of substance, a miniature solitary mountain. 300 This auciontest of mountains, which so filled the imagination of the inventors of lho Bal'{lio olcmcnt, in all known languages, was neither Sinai nor Sion , not· Athas nor Olympus, nor any J [ount l,om in Europe or America, nor the awful Abu of India, nor surely the l\Iount ~Iassis of Armenia., nor Mont Blanc, nor the great pinnaclo of tho Caucasus ; but that which each ami every isolated Gibraltar, and every Druid harrow and Egyptian pyramid, and every Ba·Bel and Tem·Pcl of the worhl was understood by ancient priesthoods to typify; namely, that first and great original Ar· rarat of Noah, reared in Thibet or elsewhere, surrounded in that day of wrath by the clement of ruin the typbonie water, and surmounted by its tiny prottfg& tho ark. Upon this primeval rock did universal worship build tho ancient church, and all high places received their representatiYe shrines. Ilencc spake the voice of God in llistory both warnings and blessings to the descendants of the prophet. 'l'ho Bell became a symbol both of |