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The Elgin Marbles or The Parthenon Sculptures: what is the solution?

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I Think We Should Give Back the Marbles, but Not Out of a Sense of Moral Obligation.

I think we should give back the marbles, but not out of a sense of legal obligation. It would be like having half of stonehenge transported to a different country. We have such a strong and proud history with Greece. I worry that if we were to proceed in the kind of quite feebral climate that we're in it would be seen as an invitation to wholesale restitution of just about every artifact"

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