The grotesque sculpture carved by G. Grandellis of this figure carrying a lamp
possibly seeking truth just as Diogenes who reportedly “lit a lamp in broad daylight
and said, as he went about,‘I am searching for a human being’” represented
philosophy. 1926 Microcosm, page 31
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