Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 167
by a fondness for haunting suggestion which stimu-lates the mind to ceaseless wonder but never translates itselfover into scientific fact. There is a striking significance which we cannot but attachto Botticellis Birth of Venus (B 167). The figure is identical,not merely in face and attitude, but… … The New Paganism and the Old Faith 149 which ? Is the Venus a Madonna or is the Madonna a Venus ?We can hardly hesitate. This shrinking apologetic creature,who is wafted tenderly toward the shore upon her shell, to bemet by the attendant grotesquely eager to clothe her naked-ness, is instinct with…
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