The Jewel City by Ben Macomber
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It is Absolutely Indispensable For the United States to Effect A
Passage From the Mexican Gulf to the Pacific Ocean And I Am Certain That They Will Do It--Would That I Might Live to See it But I Shall Not.--Goethe, Germany. (e) Small panel at right of center: The Universe--An Infinite Sphere the Center Everywhere the Circumference Nowhere.--Pascal, France. (f) Small panel at left of center: The World is in its Most Excellent State When Justice is Supreme. --Dante, Italy. VII. The Court of the Ages (Officially called "The Court of Abundance.") An artist's dream in romantic Orientalism--Mullgardt's own title for it - His great "Tower of the Ages"--Mullgardt interprets his architectural masterpiece--Brangwyn's splendid murals, "Earth," "Air," "Fire" and "Water"--The "Fountain of Earth," by Robert Aitken, realism set amidst the romantic. |
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