Dante, Inf., canto X.
Words
for
G. Robert Crowningshield,
a developer of the
International Diamond
Grading System™
According to a
press release,
Crowningshield
died on
November 8.
See Grave Matters,
an entry of that date,
and its links to
Geometry’s Tombstones,
Birth, Death, and Symmetry,
and
Religious Symbolism
at Princeton.
| Dante, Inferno, Canto X, 37-39:
E l’animose man del duca e pronte And the bold and ready hands “Make your words count,” |
Perhaps Crowningshield’s
Leader will be…
Niemoller is noted for his role in
the movement that led to the
Barmen Declaration, discussed in
Presbyterian Creedal Standards—
linked to in the above-cited
Religious Symbolism
at Princeton
(…that lay in the house
that Jack built).
