In Nature's Infinite Book of Secrecy A Little I Can Read.
—Shakespeare, England.
(d) Panel at center of attic, west side of the Arch:
It is Absolutely Indispensable For the United States to Effect A
Passage From the Mexican Gulf to the Pacific Ocean And I Am Certain
That They Will Do It—Would That I Might Live to See it But I Shall
Not.—Goethe, Germany.
(e) Small panel at right of center:
The Universe—An Infinite Sphere the Center Everywhere the
Circumference Nowhere.—Pascal, France.
(f) Small panel at left of center:
The World is in its Most Excellent State When Justice is Supreme.
—Dante, Italy.
VII.
The Court of the Ages
(Officially called "The Court of Abundance.")
An artist's dream in romantic Orientalism—Mullgardt's own title for it - His great "Tower of the Ages"—Mullgardt interprets his architectural masterpiece—Brangwyn's splendid murals, "Earth," "Air," "Fire" and "Water"—The "Fountain of Earth," by Robert Aitken, realism set amidst the romantic.