otta works, shall be putting into
tangible form the dreams and thoughts of the designer's brain. "As
many," do I say? Once it is found that architectural sculpture can be
got promptly and cheaply, and conveniently, it is not 200 modellers
only that this big community around the big bridge will need; but
architects will engage three or four or a dozen at a time, as they now
engage draughtsmen when big jobs come in.

For so the relative success and power today of the arts of expression
seem to assure us. When we come to look into the subject, we find that
modern life, which finds its expression freely in prose and in verse,
and to a slight extent in music, finds some expression also in those
arts which deal with expression. It is perhaps not a great artistic
epoch that we are living in, although, if some one were to rise by and
by, and maintain that it was, I would not be sure that he was wrong.
It is certainly a kind of novel and in many ways admirable art in the
way of expression. Great thoughts have found expression almost worthy
of them in painting, in sculpture, in etching, in wood-engravings, in
color and in black-and-white; in the single costly work of art and in
the easily multiplied and cheap productions of the press. It is true
that in these the thoughts are not always worthy of the expression
they receive. This is partly because we have nearly lost the desire of
talking about our religious beliefs in line and color and modelled
form, and that no other subject of equal universal interest has taken
the place of the ancient, simple and popular theology.

Patriotism, as shown in scenes of battle and pictures of deeds of
gallantry and self-sacrifice; poetry, as seen in pictures which
suggest sweet thoughts of young love and of home affections and of
childish grace; the love of wild nature, as seen in our school of
landscape art, now nearly fifty years old and flourishing--none of
these nor all of them together have quite replaced the priestly
theology of the Middle Ages as a subject for art, for none are quite
so universal or appeal quite so readily to the untutored eye and mind.
And so the uniform is better painted than the soldier very often, and
the outside of nature than her inward spirit, and the flesh of the
baby or the golden hair of the girl better than the baby nature or the
girl nature in each instance. But this is to be stated merely as a
drawback from praise which would otherwise be too unmeasured and t