In Winter Quarters 



corners of the earth for new dishes to 

 placate or damage his stomach, or new 

 fabrics with which to deck his person. 

 To this end he organizes business big 

 business. To this end he creates what 

 he calls commerce. To this end banks, 

 railways, steamships, telegraphs. To 

 this end all the complicated machinery 

 of modern industry. Hence a thou- 

 sand grocers to one geologist; ten 

 thousand plumbers to one poet; an 

 army of meat-cutters escorted by a few 

 musicians ! Millions at Washington for 

 artillery ; not one cent for art ! It is glor- 

 ious, is it not, to see Willard's bloody 

 face after Dempsey has "landed," but 

 I never saw any mob fighting for places 

 to see "The Dying Gaul" in bronze. 

 Perseus exerts upon me always an 

 uplifting influence. I wish you all 

 might see him; for like the flaming logs 

 of an open fire he has the power to 

 carry me in fancy over Hyperborean 

 seas, across Libyan sands, and up the 

 towering heights of Helicon itself. 



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