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"The Hindu image maker or sculptor," Mr. Hadaway observes, "does not work from life, as is the usual practice among Europeans, but he has, in place of the living model, a most elaborate and beautiful system of proportions, which he uses constantly, combining these with those observation and study of natural detail. It is, in fact, a series of anatomical rules and formulæ, of infinitely more practical use than any European system which I know of, for the Indian one treats of the actual proportion and of the surface form, rather than the more 'scientific' attachments of muscles and the articulation of bones."