. Artists and Arabs : or, sketching in sunshine . rike that strangerwho, descending from another planet, wondered i6o ARTISTS AND ARABS. Chap. VII. why, if mens Duty was so clearly placed beforethem, they did not follow it—how would he viewthe two great phases of religious worship ? Whosereligion would seem most inspiring, whose templemost fitting, whose altar most glorious, whosereligion the most free from question ; the modernand enlightened, intrenched in orthodoxy andenthroned in state; or the benighted and un-regenerate, but earnest, nature-loving and alwayssincere ? We shall have perhaps
. Artists and Arabs : or, sketching in sunshine . rike that strangerwho, descending from another planet, wondered i6o ARTISTS AND ARABS. Chap. VII. why, if mens Duty was so clearly placed beforethem, they did not follow it—how would he viewthe two great phases of religious worship ? Whosereligion would seem most inspiring, whose templemost fitting, whose altar most glorious, whosereligion the most free from question ; the modernand enlightened, intrenched in orthodoxy andenthroned in state; or the benighted and un-regenerate, but earnest, nature-loving and alwayssincere ? We shall have perhaps (if we make a seriousstudy of these subjects and put our heart into thework), to unlearn something that we have beentaught, about the steady painting of Madonnasand angels, in our schools; but, if we do no morethan make one or two sketches of such scenes asthe above, we shall have added to our store ofknowledge in a rough and ready way; and havefamiliarised ourselves with the sight of what,—though barbaric—is noble and true. CHAPTER VIII,. KABTLES. CHAPTER VIII. KAB YLIA — THE FORT NAPOLEON.
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