should be but five days' journey from New York, and
the summer houses of the Gothamites should bask on
the Pacific slope ; of the time when the shadows of
gigantic trees should fall on mansions glittering like
temples; and in the vistas of long colonnades, fringed
and rainbowed by countless fountains, should stand
statues worthy of Phydias, and should walk a people
worthy to have been his models. These new Greeks
were the Californians of the twentieth or thirtieth
centuries. Every woman is then to be pure as Diana,
wise as the unborn goddess, and fair as she whose
beauty awed the judges of Athens. The men are to
be thewed like Hercules, shaped like Apollo, and
wise as Plato.
