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beauties in nature should conceive and execute 

 suth a masterful work of art as the Par- 

 thenon! While the variation of landscape, 

 the stretch of water filled with islands, and the 

 mountains capped with eternal snow were a 

 prominent part of the picture, it was the sky 

 with its beautiful color-tones that after all 

 gave it its wonderful charm. 



The skies in a northern latitude are colder 

 and grayer, due to the fact that nearly always 

 there is a certain degree of condensation of 

 moisture existing, which, while it does not 

 take the form of a cloud, still gives a toning 

 to the sky. 



There is no doubt but that the color-tones 

 of the sky have an influence upon the charac- 

 ter and temperament of the people who live 

 under them. Under semi-tropical skies the 

 poetic nature is more strongly appealed to, 

 and a man is more likely to be controlled by 

 his dreamy imaginings than his cold calcula- 

 tions. We find this latter characteristic pre- 

 vailing to a greater or less extent among the 

 people who live under colder and sterner skies. 

 If all these qualities or influences could be 

 combined in the right way, the race would be 

 stronger intellectually and in other ways. It 

 is always dangerous to a race of people to be 

 developed along certain lines only. The de- 

 velopment should be symmetrical. The 

 strongest men are not those who are simply 



