That was at a time when the Egyptians, when the Assyrians, and other Semites, were running to artistic riot.

Every great museum in the world now has whole floors devoted to statues from the Nile, and marvellous carvings from the palaces of Sargon and Assurbanipal.

You can get the artistic remains of the Jews during that whole period into a child's wheelbarrow.

They had the sense and strength to penalize art; they alone survived.

They saw the Egyptians go, the Assyrians go, the Greeks go, the late Romans go, the Moors in Spain go--all the artistic peoples perish.