. The Open court . nine refinement of the artin Mohammedan hands. prising that they adopted the delicate, sensuous and graceful art oftheir new neighborhood rather than that of their fathers, let aloneany prejudice they might have had against the latter for the religiousreasons I have before mentioned, and notwithstanding that theyhad the quarries and the forests and the laborers of the world todraw upon for even cyclopean construction had they desired it,rather than the dainty arcades, traceries and mosaics they used. Some wise men of the West have attempted to trace Grecianinfluence in the a
. The Open court . nine refinement of the artin Mohammedan hands. prising that they adopted the delicate, sensuous and graceful art oftheir new neighborhood rather than that of their fathers, let aloneany prejudice they might have had against the latter for the religiousreasons I have before mentioned, and notwithstanding that theyhad the quarries and the forests and the laborers of the world todraw upon for even cyclopean construction had they desired it,rather than the dainty arcades, traceries and mosaics they used. Some wise men of the West have attempted to trace Grecianinfluence in the art of the new capital. Grecian influence, forsooth! 602 THE OPEN COURT. Greece was dead, despoiled, forgotten, no longer visited; its civili-zation, carried to Rome long before, had become debased, deformedand finally replaced entirely by Asiatic influences that held most potentsway over the Romans, a people capable of appreciating beauty, butwithout initiative in art, invention or any creative powers in that
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