"What's that got to do with it?  Does that make me blind and deaf to fundamental human emotion?  I was saying that the crummiest painted plaster crucifix or the cheapest cardboard Christmas Crèche can be sufficient symbol to evoke emotions in the human heart so strong that many have died for them and many more live for them.  So the craftsmanship and artistic judgment with which such a symbol is wrought are largely irrelevant.  Now here we have another emotional symbol - wrought with exquisite craftsmanship, but we won't go into that, yet.  Ben, for almost three thousand years or longer, architects have designed buildings with columns shaped as female figures - it got to be such a habit that they did it as casually as a small boy steps on an ant.  After all those centuries it took Rodin to see that this was work too heavy for a girl.  But he didn't simply say, 'Look, you jerks, if you must design this way, make it a brawny male figure.' No, he showed it... and generalized the symbol.  Here is this poor little caryatid who has tried - and failed, fallen under the load.  She's a good girl - look at her face.  Serious, unhappy at her failure, but not blaming anyone else, not even the gods... and still trying to shoulder her load, after she's crumpled under it.