In Winter Quarters 



is endowed with truly magic power. 

 We think we are far advanced in all 

 that pertains to our physical and 

 spiritual well being, as compared with 

 the ancients, but I see no evidence to 

 support any such contention. It's a 

 long trail from Babylon to Berlin, but 

 the hanging gardens and fountains, 

 the roses of Sharon and myrtles that 

 grew about the walls of the one, cer- 

 tainly made it quite as desirable a place 

 of residence, even under Nebuchad- 

 nezzar, as was the German capital 

 under William Hohenzollern. We still 

 turn to the Greece that was for our 

 highest inspirations in fine art, and to 

 pre-historic Egypt in the hope of 

 solving secrets that died with the 

 Pharaohs. Rome borrowed from them 

 both, and we in turn gaze with amaze- 

 ment upon the luxuries revealed by the 

 Baths of Caracalla, and delight to copy 

 mural decorations preserved for us 

 by the ashes of centuries in exquisite 

 Pompeian interiors. The walls of Jeri- 

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