Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . riters knowledgeof popular life, and ac-curate reproduction of itsrealities. Even in thebest society, a certaincoarseness marked thehabits of persons whoselives were, on the whole,orderly and moral. Whenwe remember that anoma-lies such as these existedin society throughoutEurope, we shall morereadily pardon them inthe Dutch, a nation butjust recovering from astruggle that had con-vulsed its whole socialsystem. The educationof this vigorous and hitherto somewhat uncultured race was derivedfrom camps and ships, or from theological and political treati
Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . riters knowledgeof popular life, and ac-curate reproduction of itsrealities. Even in thebest society, a certaincoarseness marked thehabits of persons whoselives were, on the whole,orderly and moral. Whenwe remember that anoma-lies such as these existedin society throughoutEurope, we shall morereadily pardon them inthe Dutch, a nation butjust recovering from astruggle that had con-vulsed its whole socialsystem. The educationof this vigorous and hitherto somewhat uncultured race was derivedfrom camps and ships, or from theological and political a training was little calculated to develope the minor gracesof reticence and good breeding. It is not surprising, therefore,that their amusements, public or private, should have been markedby a certain grossness. Although the general demeanour of thepeople was calm and slow, so that even when most active, theynever seemed hurried, there were yet times when they threwoff all restraint, and gave themselves up to a very Saturnalia of. MENASSEH BEN (). MANNERS 89 riotous movement. Those who have never witnessed one ofthe Amsterdam Kermesses, recently abolished, can form no ideaof the frenzy that suddenly transformed the sober populace, theirwild yells, their frantic sarabands, into which inoffensive spec-tators were whirled relentlessly, if they happened to cross the path
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