Palaces and Courts of the Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James
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upon man. Two women are attracted to the same male, a fine intellectual
and physical type. The rejected suitors are seen at the end of the panel, one in anger, the other in despair. - Panel 3 is called The Survival of the Fittest. This is the suggestion that physical strength decides who shall survive. We notice that chieftains struggle to possess the same woman, a woman on the right endeavoring to separate them. - Panel 4 is called The Lesson of Life. Elders of experience attempt to give counsel to the love-lorn and impetuous, knowing that impulse may sometimes be a poignant foe. Returning to Panel 1, the two figures at the right represent Lust, another of the strong forces of the early peoples. You have now reached your first group beyond the gap. The first figure is Greed, the third motive in this history of life. He has been holding onto the material things of life - there they are, rolled into a great ball. He realizes how futile his life has been and looks back upon the past, longing to retrace his steps and live to nobler purpose. Then comes the old man who has the spiritual understanding, and he knows |
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