when not absolutely pessimistic, is at least lion-optimistic. The feeling of the hemispherical dome is pessimistic. No matter from what point in the base one begins to climb he comes at last without a change in the law of his progression to a point in the same plane from which he started. He has… … race of orientals breathes that sentiment. Here is a man and here his tomb. Christianity came and changed the idea of death. It did not change the sentiment of the dome ; that still meant completion so far as this life was concerned, but it added the idea that this life
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