"Nude heroic sculpture must pose quite a threat, to be dismissed by one of the Ten Commandments. ...

"It is interesting to note that the cultures that embraced the heroic nude—Ancient Greece, the Italian Renaissance, and many countries in the nineteenth century—simultaneously made monumental advances in politics, science, and philosophy.

"If we are going to move forward into a culture of flourishing individualism, then there is no better symbol for its beginning than Schipperheyn’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra."

Michael Newberry