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tiou. In the animals behind these two figures on either side the East is 

 further symbolized by a lion and the West by a bison. 



Behind the East are crowded the pyramids, the sphinx, the ruins of 

 Persepolis, and a group of six great oriental leaders. Beginning with the 

 foremost in the top row, the leaders are : Zoser of Egypt, the first great 

 builder ; Hammurapi of Babylonia, the first great lawgiver ; Thutmose 

 III of Egypt, the first empire builder; Ashurbanipal of Assyria, who col- 

 lected the first great library; Darius, the great organizer; and Chosroes 

 of Persia. 



Behind the West on the right are the Parthenon, a European cathedral, 

 and a modern skyscraper tower. The six heads represent Herodotus, 

 Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, a crusader, a modern excavator lean- 

 ing on his spade, and a modern archeologist at work with his lens. In 

 the center, over all, shines the oriental sun, its rays ending in human 

 hands. 



