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Date:
Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:59:51 EDT
Subject:
Stone Desecration
In a post several days ago, a comment was made about the desecration
inflicted by stone people upon the Earth. How we are robbing future
generations of a valuable resource.
I like what George Graham said about natural resources, but there is
another perspective. It is said that when the Italian sculptor
Giuseppe Moretti came to Sylacauga, Alabama in the early 1900's and
saw that beautiful white marble was being dynamiting for use in the
steel industry he was disturbed. He immediately sought to encourage
the use of the marble solely for artistic and building purposed. It
did not happen. Today almost all the marble quarried, is ground into a
fine powder. This powder is used in all sorts of applications like the
coating for paper and as a filler in paints. Is it a sacrilege to
crush beautiful marble to coat paper? Perhaps this is what the
attendee meant by desecration.
Archie
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