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DIAMONDS IN LITERATURE 413
poetry
and romance, the beauty of the wonderful crystal, the exquisite
adaptation of art to Nature's requirements in the cutting and
polishing of it, and degrade the companion of royalty and beauty to the
sign of dollars.
And
because the diamond-advertising literature of the day reeks so with the
spirit of the bargain counter, and the gem flashes so commonly from the
unclean hands of politics, vice and graft, the noblest product of
Nature's gigantic laboratory is by association, oftentimes made vulgar.
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