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...sculptors of the Periclean Athens, of whom Phidias was the greatest, must all be studied in copies. Roman workers, little more than capable.artisans, copied bronze in marble, marble in bronze; statues in the round were copied in relief; the size was reduced, even the proportions altered. Only two works of Phidias have been surely recognized in copies-the Athena Parthenos and the Olympian Zeus...
...weddings of those creatures, part god, part man, that peopled the younger earth. They swarmed at the hips of Zeus and between the legs of his throne, executed by Panaeus, nephew and assistant of Phidias. Scholars have hinted that the figure owed its fame to these entertaining adornments, but Roman writers commented on the power, at once placid and stern, a sort of deep pagan content, that lived in the head. Here was no irritable Roman Jove, waiting at the least vexation to scatter thunderbolts in all directions like sparklers, but a Grecian gentleman, portentous as a hill, poised serenely...
Wilhelm, who had supposed his intrinsic greatness to be so transcendant that he had his portrait painted as a Roman Emperor upon a bounding stallion, tasted the ashes of being undeceived...
Ostensibly to call "upon the [British] archbishops now considering proposals for the prayer book revision to maintain the Protestant reformed religion, as by law established," really to attempt to throttle the yearnings of many Episcopalians towards Roman Catholicism, 8,000 representatives of the Anglican and Free Churches of England recently gathered in London. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London did not attend. But Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks was there, presided, deprecated as usual all divergence from established customs, cried: "We have just passed through anxious times [the general strike; TIME, May 10 et seq.] . . . defeated...
...Episcopalians have remained above the Fundamentalist-Modernist rows, especially in Britain. Their chief unrest concerns merging the national Church of England with some older communion-Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy. Suggestions that they merge with some one of the re¬formed sects have been coldly received...