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  • [After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris]
    [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

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