Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 68
and its unvarying magnificence is of a paler light thanthat of statues in a temple underground. The spiritof feudal India is rather in the great rectangularcastles, bare and austere, closed in like fortresses,defended by high towers, and cuirassed with poly-chromed enamel; it is in the palaces of… … north than in the democratic India of the south. Inone place as in the other, the abstraction descendsfrom the dominating classes to crush the miserableclasses beneath the petrified symbol of its externalpower. But the HellenicOccident where, on thecontrary, the abstractionrose from the masses…
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