All night the romanian artillery on the eastern shore of Siret river, high and steep, has bombarded the german positions on the front shore, downstream, causing losses in both men and material to the germans . In the same time the other romanian divisions started to move, going in the direction of the forsaken placeThe 9th Division was gathering at Cosmesti, 14th Division at Umbraresti and Dorasti, the 13th Division concentrated at Matca; the smaller units were through the intermediary villages . Other divisions were marching from Northern Moldavia towards south . The whole Siret valley was filled with marching Romanian troops; a breach was made in the barrier which defended for six months the piece of land in which unchaining, virtue, and the life of the country was concentrated . Who was to fill the breach with more heart, then the romanian s chests ?.
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According to historians of science Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, the sculpture " blends the ancient trope of the veil of Isis, interpreted as nature's desire to hide her secrets, with the modern fantasy of ( female ) nature willingly revealing herself to the ( male ) scientist, without violence or artifice . " In a similar vein, biologist and essayist Gerald Weissmann has noted the similarity between Nature's pose in Barrias'sculpture and that of the central figure in the 1876 painting " Dr . Pinel Unchaining the Mad " by Tony Robert-Fleury, a released inmate from an insane asylum who has " the detached look of the very lost . " Literary critic Elaine Showalter imagines a companion piece depicting Science would consist of " a fully clothed man, whose gaze [ is ] bold, direct, and keen, the penetrating gaze of intellectual and sexual mastery ".
