In the official
list this is called "Philosophy" or "Thought," and from it the immense
portal is called "The Half-dome of Philosophy." But the same figure
occupies the corresponding position before the Food Products Palace, and
is there called "Physical Vigor." The truth is that the artist designed
the statue to suggest that finest of all unions of strength, the
physically powerful man thinking. Thus the figure is appropriate to both
a food products building and an education building. The figure is
strong, but is not so convincing or appealing as the same artist's "Man
with a Pick," in the Varied Industries portal. Within the half-dome is a
repeated figure with a scroll inscribed "Libris," by Albert Weinert.
The six niches in the west wall have two repeated statues by Charles R.
Harley, known as "The Triumph of the Field" and "Abundance." They are
simply repeated from the Food Products Palace to the north, where they
properly belong, and will be treated in the next chapter in connection
with that building.
On the north facade of the Palace of Education are duplicates of the
three south portals, with the same sculptured panels.
Palaces Facing the Marina, and the Column of Progress
The walled-city idea, which throws most of the fine architecture into
interior courts, is even more severely carried out in the north facades
than in the south.
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