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Chapter X The National Sculpture Society
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spite of its shortcomings; could not
this lifeless, chalky stuff be transform-
ed into a substance both durable and
interesting? And marble, that sover-
eign among materials, is there no way
by which its fine white crystals could
be made to take on other tones than
those nature has given? The ques-
tions are legion. With the amazing ad-
vance of practical chemistry within
the last few years, many of them might
be definitely settled by scientific ex-
periment. It is to be hoped that in the
near future the National Sculpture So-
ciety will acquire its needed research
workshop, and put out publications of
the results obtained, so that science
may assist art as generously as in an
allegory of mural decoration.
We have spoken of idealists. No
member of the Society has proved
himself a more practical idealist than
Mr. Lorado Taft, long an enthusiastic
teacher of the modeling classes at the
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spite of its shortcomings; could not
this lifeless, chalky stuff be transform-
ed into a substance both durable and
interesting? And marble, that sover-
eign among materials, is there no way
by which its fine white crystals could
be made to take on other tones than
those nature has given? The ques-
tions are legion. With the amazing ad-
vance of practical chemistry within
the last few years, many of them might
be definitely settled by scientific ex-
periment. It is to be hoped that in the
near future the National Sculpture So-
ciety will acquire its needed research
workshop, and put out publications of
the results obtained, so that science
may assist art as generously as in an
allegory of mural decoration.
We have spoken of idealists. No
member of the Society has proved
himself a more practical idealist than
Mr. Lorado Taft, long an enthusiastic
teacher of the modeling classes at the
SCULPTURE SOCIETY