The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 2 (June 1, 1929.)
Mind and Mountains
Mind and Mountains.
Certainly faith has its advantages. For instance, it assisted a certain ancient contractor named Mohammed to effect a compromise with the biggest shifting job extant, with no other tools than his personality; but attempts at mountain moving as a pastime have their drawbacks, and are not recommended for beginners, in the best treatises on psychological sports and pastimes. Even if one did succeed in enticing a mountain into one's back yard by imitating the cry of the eidelweiss, or the gymnastics of a Swiss cheese, what would one (or two for that matter) do with it, unless one proposed to raise yodels and alpenstocks on a commercial scale?

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