Even the pleasing varieties of corporeal life cannot be represented by a system of mere proportions, much less those which are inner and spiritual.

Look at the countless statues which have been erected during the last three thousand years, in all the temples and palaces from Naukratis up to the Cataracts.

They are all of one type, and represent men of middle age, with grave but benevolent countenances.

Yet they are intended, some as statues of aged monarchs, others to perpetuate the memory of young princes.

The warrior and the lawgiver, the blood-thirsty tyrant and the philanthropist are only distinguished from each other by a difference in size, by which the Egyptian sculptor expresses the idea of power and strength.