text:  We find their temples even in ruins beautiful beyond the day-dream of our modern architects; some of them till bold and sacrilegious hands despoiled them adorned with sculptures which surviving the destruction of the people who raised them the wanton rage of barbarous enemies and the inroads of the elements for near two thousand years sill remain in their decay the wonder and admiration of the world the models of modern sculptors and the greatest treasure of art a nation can possess