Palaces and Courts of the Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James
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3. The Awakening.
4. The Joy of Living. 5. The Kiss of Life. 6. The Bringing Forth of Life. The elemental feelings are here suggested. You will then notice a gap which stands for the unknown period of history after the first "Dawn of Life." - Now pass to Panel 1 (facing Helios). The central figure is Vanity, one of the compelling motives of that early life. Following are two fine figures carrying their children, expressing the idea of the fecundity of the early races. - A hermes divides this panel from the next. Since in classic times a herm, or hermes, was used to mark distances on the roads, so here the hermes is used to mark distances, or periods in time. - Panel 2 - We now see the successors of the children of the previous panel grown to manhood. The fact of Natural Selection inflicts itself |
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