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what they do. I suppose. Would or would not the man whose work is the most impersonal be a greater artist than the man whose work is very, personal? I have never seen any work that was not like the man that produced it, it does not seem possibly that it could be otherwise, yet it seems that the man who understands nature and her laws see into her more deeply and feels her more strongly, would be the man to do work which would live longest and in time be universally understood. It would be work true to life, nature or whatever you care to call it, as the Elgin marbles are, to dispute them would be like disputing nature to say she should be something else but what

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a few tricky words to decipher The Elgin Marbles also known as the Parthenon Marbles are a collection of Classical Greek marble sculptures