Westward Empire Or the Great Drama of Human Progress
Westward Empire Or the Great Drama of Human Progress
Elias Lyman Magoon
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C. 366, all the Asiatic colonies of Greece contributing to the ex- pense of its erection. ' It was four hundred years in progress, and was burned by Eratostratus, with the object of immortalizing his name, on the same night that Alexander was born. Then began the age of martial greatness and artistic deterioration which ended not till Christianity came to gaze on the desecrated relics of Judea at Rome, and passed yet further west through the arches of paganism to originate more aspiring and glo...rious shines. The triumphal monuments raised to commemorate the conquests of Titus, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Severus, and Constantine, toge- ther with the Trajan, Antonine, and Theodosian columns, bear the principal compositions of national sculpture ; and these, it is believed, were mostly executed by Greeks. The coerced hand must perform its task, and the results were made to breathe the spirit of war, conquest, and universal dominion. But in vain do we search for one graceful figure or attractive charm.
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