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...Pagan Temples interest...
...usual little blurb that finds its way into every catalogue, Maillol is described as the Swinburne of stone. He is said to have recaptured the simple purity of the Greeks and to have infused into it a pagan breath of strength and wild disorder. Which serves very well as blurb, and which, strangely enough, is very true. There is none of of the unfinished effect of Rodin, none of the power created by blocks of chaotic stone, but a curious similarity, none the less, in treatment. The little terra cotta statuettes are worth much more than a passing glance...
Concerning the titular patriarchs of the pagan-named* weekdays, there was but one ambiguity: Nathan or Oscar Solomon? It was neither, it was Simon William (S. W. Straus & Co., "no loss to any investor for 43 years") and his day was the biggest: $1,020,193. He sprang, like the famed Gimbels, from Indiana, having been born in Ligonier just after the Civil War. Soon thereafter his father established in Chicago one of the greatest bond businesses in history. Now a gilded doorway struts into uptown Fifth Avenue, proclaiming the sweep of the Straus enterprises. It is in Manhattan that...
...prove his point he quoted from the Bible "a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit," and went on to show that evolution was a reversion to pagan pantheism...
...Straton attacked the scientists who believe and teach the theory of Evolution, as "pagan and heathen minds trying to eliminate God from the Universe," and Mr. H. G. Wells' "Outline of History" as the "most humorous of all the humorous books published this century...