Many a man who looks large in small surroundings, is dwarfed to a pigmy
when placed among his superiors:
Since the Statue of Liberty was erected the scale of almost
everything material has changed, especially in New York, so that
the colossus does not look even large now. It was all very well
for the Colossus of Rhodes to straddle the harbor entrance,
looking down on the tiny sailing craft, and pigmy buildings of
its day; it could not look otherwise than grandiose; but it
would have been swallowed up and lost among the sky-scrapers
and mammoth ocean-liners of twentieth-century New York, with
its huge bridges, lofty towers, and all-around bigness. Nothing
counts in a work of art but quality.--Boston _Transcript_.
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