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The decline of the West, Volume 1

Note 125 — Chapter IV · THE PROBLEM OF WORLD-HISTORY

Charles Francis Atkinson translation

Who was criticized as “no god-maker but a man-maker” and as one who spoilt the beauty of his work by aiming at likeness.

Cresilas, the sculptor from whom the only existing portrait of Pericles is derived, was a little earlier; in him, however, the “ideal” was still the supreme aim.—Tr.

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