"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."--Edith Wharton, "Vesalius in Zante," 1902. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Teasles Charles Campbell

Kotz-a-tó-ah, Smoked Shield, a Distingui... George Catlin

Portrait of Freeman Cary Robert Seldon Duncanson

Fringed Polygala (Polygala paucifolia) Mary Vaux Walcott

Church of St. Germain des Pres Frank Edwin Scott

William West Durant Hiram Powers