Excerpt from The Appreciation of Sculpture: A Handbook<br><br>But we will note that the examples which we have by the thousand, either in the Chiaramonti Museum or the Geld white galleries of Naples, such as were set about the forums and under the roofed porticoes, are works which we do not care very much about. The effect of such a prodigious pro duction of inferior work was not, however, bad for the contemporaneous production of the finest work. It is not an evil, but a good, that ten thousand marble-cutters in the Mediterranean world were turning out, each ten statues a year that was clear gain, because it gave the artist of purpose and of great powers of design a field to work in of which we, in our time, can have no.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.