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Mills of God. Roman-era depiction of an animal-driven flour mill. [1] An edge mill with two millstones. Katherine Maltwood portrayed a similar arrangement in her bronze, The Mills of God (1918/9), which was inspired by the suffering of the Great War. [2]
The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine. Meaning: Justice maybe slow but it will come eventually. Background: The earliest known use of this expression is by 3rd century Greek philosopher Sextus Empiricus, who wrote 'The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small.'
Mills of the Gods: Directed by Roy William Neill. With May Robson, Fay Wray, Victor Jory, Raymond Walburn. A game-old-girl, Mary Hastings (May Robson), retires as the head of the Hasting Plow Works...only to see it slip rapidly into ruin.
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- Adventure, Drama
- Roy William Neill
- 1934-12-15
This expression comes from ancient Greek, translated as “The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small.” In English it appeared in George Herbert's Jacula Prudentum (1640) as “God's mill grinds slow but sure.”
Mills Of God. The proverbial expression of the mills of God grinding slowly refers to the notion of slow but certain divine retribution. Plutarch (1st century AD) alludes to the metaphor as a then-current adage in his Moralia (De sera numinis vindicta “On the Delay of Divine Vengeance”):
Following the death of her husband forty years earlier, Mary Hastings has taken the family business from a small blacksmith's shop to a major industrial plant, the Hastings Plow Works, and is now considering retirement.
mills of the gods grind slowly (, but they grind exceedingly fine) Destiny will deliver an outcome that is correct, just, and inevitable, though it may take a long time to come to be. It was a disheartening verdict, to be sure, but we aren't losing hope for a successful outcome eventually.
