Dual Heart

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"The Bowling Green and Spuyten Duyvil, the modern mart and the ancient forest, the two extremities of our Island, thus hold in epitome, perhaps, the dual heart of Man."
Walter Prichard Eaton, New York

Primitive Beauty

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"New York is a new city, a city dedicated primarily to commerce and adapted to handle commerce on a new and undreamed scale. It has the beauty of an engine perfectly built to perform its appointed task, and it has further, by its colossal height and bulk, the primitive beauty of the mountain crags and gorges."
Walter Prichard Eaton, New York