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Secondly : From trials which Lord El-
gin was induced to make, at the request
of professional gentlemen, a strong im-
pression has been created, that the science
of sculpture, and the taste and judgment
by which it is to be carried forward and
appreciated, cannot so effectually be pro-
moted, as by athletic exercises practised
in the presence of similar works ; the dis-
tinguishing merit of which, is an able,
scientific, ingenious, but exact imitation of
Nature. By no other way could the
variety of attitude, the articulation of the
muscles, the description of the passions ;
in short, every thing a sculptor has to
represent, bé so accurately or so bene-
ficially understood and represented.
Under similar advantages, and with
an enlightened and encouraging protec-
tion bestowed on genius and the arts,
it may not be too sanguine to indulge
a hope, that, prodigal as Nature is in
the perfections of the human figure in
Secondly : From trials which Lord El-
gin was induced to make, at the request
of professional gentlemen, a strong im-
pression has been created, that the science
of sculpture, and the taste and judgment
by which it is to be carried forward and
appreciated, cannot so effectually be pro-
moted, as by athletic exercises practised
in the presence of similar works ; the dis-
tinguishing merit of which, is an able,
scientific, ingenious, but exact imitation of
Nature. By no other way could the
variety of attitude, the articulation of the
muscles, the description of the passions ;
in short, every thing a sculptor has to
represent, bé so accurately or so bene-
ficially understood and represented.
Under similar advantages, and with
an enlightened and encouraging protec-
tion bestowed on genius and the arts,
it may not be too sanguine to indulge
a hope, that, prodigal as Nature is in
the perfections of the human figure in