Note 101 — ESSAYS. (continued 2)

It was near this building that the Graces in marble by Socrates stood: they were veiled as became the Graces, fashioned by the hand of wisdom. The veil on the work of Socrates was a real veil; but a friend has observed, that “the veil was a remarkable part of the mythology of the Graces, but it is described as invisible, and having only the moral effect of a veil.”