Page:California Inter Pocula.djvu/345



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.