. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. ^TEt^ACcT^ ORNAMENTS AND HEAD ON by H. Catenacci, from original in museum of the Louvre, how the concepts and inspiration of artwere wanting to these peoples. Takethe Hebrews for example. How grayand monotonous were the color andla
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. ^TEt^ACcT^ ORNAMENTS AND HEAD ON by H. Catenacci, from original in museum of the Louvre, how the concepts and inspiration of artwere wanting to these peoples. Takethe Hebrews for example. How grayand monotonous were the color andlandscape of their imagination ! Those migrant tribesmen were not without aglow of warmth, enthusiasm, and hope;but their faces looked up solemnly to-ward the midnight heavens. The ma-jestic stars were over their heads. Theirdream was of the greatness and serenityof the sky. To them the frettedvault on high seemed as the workof an Infinite hand. Under itsshadow and curtain they becameworshipers of an unseen thought took no form offancy. Their emotions were seri-ous, and found vent only in form-ing concepts of almightiness andin vague ejaculations of praise. In the migratory period of arace it were irrational to expectartistic achievement. It is in thatprecise period, how- ?^ - . Art could not be ever, that the fanciful de
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