There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.
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Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.
And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
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