[14] They are cut with a cross-chiselled margin, and rough outstanding rustic work in the centre. Their size and weight are enormous. One writer, whose sense of humour is hardly equal to his knowledge of Scripture, in describing them is carried away into the statement that “the Jewish architects, taught by their Phœnician neighbours, bestowed special care upon the corners of their great buildings. They show a finish, a solidity, and choice of material superior to other parts.... And how beautifully expressive is the language of the Psalmist, ‘our daughters are corner-stones, polished after the similitude of a palace’--one of the corner-stones of this angle weighs over a hundred tons”! [15] For an account of these and others cf. Palestine Exploration Fund, Quarterly Statement, October 1901. [16] See, however, Professor G. A. Smith’s _Jerusalem_, vol. i. pp. 189, 190. [17] _Haifa_, Laurence Oliphant, pp. 317, 318. [18] “Love among the Ruins,” Robert Browning. [19] _The Dawn of Art_, Martin Conway, pp. 58-76. [20] St. Symeon was a shepherd from the borderland between Cilicia and Syria. [21] Cf. Schaff’s _Church History, Nicene and Post-Nicene Period_, chap. iv. [22] St. Jerome, Ep. xiv. [23] Cf. pp. 27, 30. [24] _Arabia, the Cradle of Islam_, Zwemer, p. 179. [25] _Mediæval Christianity_, Schaff, p. 150. [26] Written in 1904. [27] _The Crusades_, Cox, p. 72. [28] _The Crusades_, Cox, p. 215. Of these children only 5000 crossed the Mediterranean. They were sold, when they landed, in the slave-markets of Alexandria and Algiers. [29] Map has the credit of introducing the Grail story into Arthurian romance; Borron of adding the early part which traced it to Joseph of Arimathea. [30] Cf. _Chivalry and Crusades_, Stebbing, vol. ii. chaps. iv. and v. [31] _Haifa_, Laurence Oliphant, p. 189. [32] _The Semites_, Robertson Smith, p. 29. [33] _Ibid._ pp. 244, 257. [34] Deut. xxviii. 47, 48. [35] Deut. xxviii. 47, 48. [36] _Robert Browning_, William Sharp, p. 203. [37] Gen. xxxv. 16, 19. [38] _Haifa_, pp. 270-272; _Tent Work_, p. 85. [39] Cf. _The Dawn of Art_, Martin Conway, p. 95, etc.; _Some Aspects of the Greek Genius_, Professor Butcher, p. 30. [40] Cf. _Rationalism in Europe_, Leckie, ii. 197. [41] Cf. the sprightly figure of Glaucon in Plato’s _Republic_, B, x, § 9: “Do you know,” says Socrates, “that our soul is immortal and never dies?” “By Jove, I do not,” replies Glaucon. “Are you prepared to prove that it is?” [42] _Arabia, the Cradle of Islam_, Zwemer, xiii. [43] The rags which are hung on trees or fences near certain tombs suggest the medicinal value of holy places, which attracts men to them from selfish interests. [44] _Talisman_, xxviii. [45] _East of the Jordan_, Dr. Merrill, p. 496. [46] _Tent Work_, p. 314. [47] _Marius the Epicurean_, Walter Pater, i. 44. [48] _Rob Roy on the Jordan_, p. 260. [49] _Eothen_, ch. viii.