| Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON THE CRUCIBLE OF LIFE constantly C iti ili speech today as aa well as in literature we meet willi the expression tile the crucible of ex per lence or the cruc crucible ittle of affliction or of life the term Is used in ili tile alio figurative sense it crucible balna bein it vessel in which metals and oresie ores anre melted or pulverized in other oilier words nords it Is a melting pot liot where a mehl la is and tried where gold la Is separated from dross so a severe trial which tests human ettle and from which one er nerges and wiser lg Is t spoken of as going through the crucible of the experience 1 |