ad by .a wilderness of limestone columns j we see walls within 
and 
without decorated with symbolic 
sculptures, a single build- 
ing presenting thousand of square yards of embellished sur- 
face, lofty false fronts, and roof crests being raised to af- 
ford space for the exercise of the native genius. 
These are chapters in the 
evolution of the building 
arts not taught with equal clearness and fullness in any other 
part of the world. Beside the direct lessons of the art of 
architecture which bear upon its own history, many side lights 
are thrown upon other branches of primitive culture - mural 
decorations, sculpture and furnishings, as well as the organ- 
ization of society, r ©lagoons beliefs and systems or writing, 
SCULPTURE — Sculpture reached its highest development in 
Greece, but the stages through which the art passed are but 
m eagerly recorded in the axis ting art of Hellas, The earlier 
steps are represented by isolated bits in many places, but th© 
primitive phases of the art are no where so fully developed m h 
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in America, We have here a vast body of material covering every 
