Jan Smuts Quote

The Mountain is not merely something eternally sublime. It has a great historical and spiritual meaning for us... From it came the Law, from it came the Gospel in the Sermon on the Mount. We may truly say that the highest religion is the Religion of the Mountain.

When he unveiled the Mountain Club War Memorial at Maclear's Beacon on the summit of Table Mountain (1923), as cited by Alan Paton in his final essay, A Literary Remembrance, published posthumously in TIME, 25 April 1988, p. 106.

The Mountain is not merely something eternally sublime. It has a great historical and spiritual meaning for us... From it came the Law, from it came...

The Mountain is not merely something eternally sublime. It has a great historical and spiritual meaning for us... From it came the Law, from it came...

The Mountain is not merely something eternally sublime. It has a great historical and spiritual meaning for us... From it came the Law, from it came...

The Mountain is not merely something eternally sublime. It has a great historical and spiritual meaning for us... From it came the Law, from it came...