Ne Material Culture

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    If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus’ material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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    Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.
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