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

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young sculptors with the dernier cri
from Crete in their minds and at their
finger-tips.
The story of American sculpture
cannot be told under a parable of a
chain with equally strong links through-
out. One thinks rather of a slender
thread, which may be fastened to a
cord, which will draw up a strong rope,
which will in turn attach itself to a
powerful cable. If early Yankee in-
genuity is that slender thread, let us
thank God for it, and hope for better
things.
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With the dawn of our national con-
sciousness just after the dark hours
of the Revolution, a natural human
love for the likeness, strengthened by
a generous surrender to hero-worship,
is already arousing in us a longing for
an art that will express our patriotic
emotions. If achievement alone be
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