. Out-of-door memorials : mausoleums, tombs, headstones and all forms of mortuary DERISION AND CRITICISM, THEREBY DEFEATINGTHE OBJECT OF ITS EXISTENCE. IF ON THEOTHER HAND THE DESIGN IS A WORK OF ART THEMEMORIAL WILL BE A CONSTANT SOURCE OFDELIGHT TO ALL, AND A SURE MEANS OF KEEPINGALIVE THE MEMORY OF THE DEPARTED. AGAINDURABILITY IS JUST AS ESSENTIAL AS GOODDESIGN, AS THE OBJECT IS TO MAKE A PERPET-UAL RECORD FOR THE LIVING AND A LASTINGSIGN OF TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD. THE FINEST ART TREASURES OF ANTIQUITYTHAT HAVE REACHED OUR DAY ARE MOSTLY OFA MORTUARY CHARACTER, FOR THE HUMANHEART
. Out-of-door memorials : mausoleums, tombs, headstones and all forms of mortuary DERISION AND CRITICISM, THEREBY DEFEATINGTHE OBJECT OF ITS EXISTENCE. IF ON THEOTHER HAND THE DESIGN IS A WORK OF ART THEMEMORIAL WILL BE A CONSTANT SOURCE OFDELIGHT TO ALL, AND A SURE MEANS OF KEEPINGALIVE THE MEMORY OF THE DEPARTED. AGAINDURABILITY IS JUST AS ESSENTIAL AS GOODDESIGN, AS THE OBJECT IS TO MAKE A PERPET-UAL RECORD FOR THE LIVING AND A LASTINGSIGN OF TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD. THE FINEST ART TREASURES OF ANTIQUITYTHAT HAVE REACHED OUR DAY ARE MOSTLY OFA MORTUARY CHARACTER, FOR THE HUMANHEART AT ALL TIMES HAS BEEN PERSISTENT INITS ENDEAVOR TO EXPRESS BY SOME LASTINGMONUMENT ITS LOVE FOR THE ONES WHO HAVEGONE BEFORE, EVERYWHERE AND ALWAYS WEFIND MEN FIGHTING AGAINST THE TOOTH OFTIME, GIVING OF THEIR BEST, EVEN MAKINGGREAT SACRIFICES, IN ORDER TO KEEP ALIVETHE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO HAVE ENTEREDINTO ETERNAL LIFE. THE HISTORY OF OUT-OF-DOOR MEMORIALSFROM THE TIME WHEN JACOB PLACED A SHAFTOVER THE GRAVE OF RACHEL EVEN TO OUR OWN. DAY, IS A HISTORY OF DISSOLUTION AND , FOR ALL MEN HAVE BEEN INTERESTEDIN PRESERVING THOSE THAT WERE WORKS OFART, AND EQUALLY INDIFFERENT AS TO THE DE-
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