Story said it was an application of eclipses to his theory that love was the motive to creation. If the sun is beneficent truth shorn of its beams, it would be like the moon, no better than brass!
Caroline Sturgis asked why the Mahomedans bore the crescent.
William White said because of some change in the moon which occurred at the time of the Hegira.
William Story said that the worshippers at Mecca carried the crescent before Mahomet’s time. There is a crescent on the black stone.
Both stories may be true. There is certainly a crescent on the old Byzantine coin, or besant.
Ida Russell said something about Diana being wedded.
This reminded E. P. P. of Minerva’s marriage, discussed last week. She said that Charles Wheeler had seen the gem of which she then spoke, and that Neptune was the favored suitor.
William Story said the Greeks could not wed Neptune to Diana, for the tides were too low in the Mediterranean!
C. W. HEALEY.