Perseus or Pugilist? 



which I had rather own than possess a 

 deed in fee simple to Chicago city. The 

 one would lift me up sometimes. The 

 other frequently depresses. And if the 

 Italian Government could only be in- 

 duced to let us have this marble group 

 in full payment of its war loans from 

 the United States, and if some Ogden 

 Armour would then give a million 

 dollars to be expended upon the build- 

 ing of a worthy Pantheon to house the 

 figures, facing the Auditorium on the 

 Boulevard, some real conception of the 

 higher things of life might be brought 

 home to this big-bodied, busy, sordid, 

 money-grubbing town. 



The average man seems to be about 

 nine-tenths physical and maybe one- 

 tenth mental. He is so busy catering 

 to the former that he has no time to 

 bother with the latter. Not content 

 with living upon the food that produces 

 itself all around him, not content with 

 clothing himself with materials near at 

 hand, he sets out to scour the remotest 

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