Adams, Adeline: The spirit of American sculpture (New York: Nat. Sculpture Soc., 1923)

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THE SPIRIT OF
and even before the World War, there
has been, through our museums and
other sources, an honest effort toward
cooperation between art and manufac-
ture. An up-hill task but a necessary
one, in any sound national develop-
ment! The day of the stone soldier
is over, but whether we are laying up
for ourselves a store of future regret
in other forms of memorial sculpture
remains to be seen.
Thus to mark off by our wars the
various chapters of our sculptural his-
tory and to develop each chapter in se-
quence would be in the grand style;
perhaps in a grander style than is
suited to the dimensions of this sketch.
It has therefore seemed better to in-
dicate certain natural divisions of the
subject by means of those enterprises
of peace, our expositions. The Cen-
tennial of 1876, by its cruel compari-
sons, stirred our sculpture from the
lethargy supposed to have overtaken
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