“And this do I say also to the o’erthrowers of statues: It is certainly the greatest folly to throw salt into the sea, and statues into the mud. “In the mud of your contempt lay the statue: but it is just its law, that out of contempt, its life and living beauty grow again! “With diviner features doth it now arise, seducing by its suffering; and verily! it will yet thank you for o’erthrowing it, ye subverters!
