themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if
equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? One
piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument
as high
as the moon. I love better to see stones in place. The grandeur
of
Thebes was a vulgar grandeur. More sensible is a rod of stone wall
that bounds an honest man's field than a hundred-gated Thebes
that
has wandered farther from the true end of life. The religion and
civilization which are barbaric and heathenish build splendid
temples; but what you might call Christianity does not. Most of
the
stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself
alive. As for the Pyramids,
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so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded
enough
to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby,
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