the ancient wisdom of the cards.
A reproduction of an authentic Genovean Tarot exhibited at the Fournier Playing Card Museum.
Genova, Italy. 1887
Realisation, Effect, Development;
Stoppage, Check, Immature, Unripe.
The Emperor, by imputation the spouse of the former. He is occasionally represented as wearing, in addition to his personal insignia, the stars or ribbons of some order of chivalry. I mention this to shew that the cards are a medley of old and new emblems. Those who insist upon the evidence of the one may deal, if they can, with the other. No effectual argument for the antiquity of a particular design can be drawn from the fact that it incorporates old material; but there is also none which can be based on sporadic novelties, the intervention of which may signify only the unintelligent hand of an editor or of a late draughtsman.
Realisation, Effect, Development
Stoppage, Check, Immature, Unripe.
Will.