History of art . Art Later than Han (hi to iv Century ). Ovoid vase with screw decoration. (Charles Vignier Collection.) 58 MEDIEVAL ART him to lull into indifference whatever momentary im-pulses toward revolt he may have. As far back as we go into the distant childhood ofChina, we find the race already molded to certain meta-physical abstractions and certain moral entities fromwhich all later forms of expression will descend. TheAryan goes from the concrete to the abstract, theChinese from the abstract to the concrete. With theAryan, the general idea is the flower of objective obser-vatio
History of art . Art Later than Han (hi to iv Century ). Ovoid vase with screw decoration. (Charles Vignier Collection.) 58 MEDIEVAL ART him to lull into indifference whatever momentary im-pulses toward revolt he may have. As far back as we go into the distant childhood ofChina, we find the race already molded to certain meta-physical abstractions and certain moral entities fromwhich all later forms of expression will descend. TheAryan goes from the concrete to the abstract, theChinese from the abstract to the concrete. With theAryan, the general idea is the flower of objective obser-vation, and abstraction is always a thing in process ofevolution. With the Chinese, the general idea seemsto precede the objective study of the world and theprogress of the abstraction ends sharply as soon as amoral law sufficient to sustain social relationships hasappeared to the philosopher. In the Occident the sym-bol comes out of life, and frees itself from life, littleby little, through progressive generalization
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