It is intensity, not duration, that is of consequence, and that determines results. To state that there is something in the Colorado air that incites active and lofty thought; that uplifts the soul and enables one to discern the practical processes for identifying the most marvellous scenic grandeur of the civilized world with the most advanced processes of applied industries, is to state a simple fact. Phillips Brooks once said:
"I know no ideal humanity that is not filled and pervaded with the superhuman. God in man is not unnatural, but the absolutely natural. That is what the incarnation makes us know.... The truths of heaven and the truths of earth are in perfect sympathy.... The needs of human nature are supreme, and have a right to the divinest help."
The early explorers and pioneers in Colorado felt this truth, so finely stated by Bishop Brooks, even if they did not formulate it in words. The apparently insuperable obstacles of a land where the desert disputed the space with the Titanic mountain ranges piled against the sky, incited them to effort rather than paralyzed their energy. It is fitting that this most ideal state, rich in resources of almost undreamed-of variety and importance, should present a significant object lesson in the working out of the problem involved in the higher civilization of the twentieth century. The future of Denver, of Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Greeley, and other important centres, is a most important part of the future of the nations. The Star of high destiny shines on the Centennial State.
CHAPTER VI
THE SURPRISES OF NEW MEXICO
"But my minstrel knows and tells
The counsel of the gods,
Knows of Holy Book the spells,