. 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. ust be relegated to the level ofcommon buildings of the mart andassembly. It was in the curiousartisanship of the temple and inthe profusion of its golden orna-mentation that the national sanc-tuary has its place among the famousbuildings of the ancient wo
. 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. ust be relegated to the level ofcommon buildings of the mart andassembly. It was in the curiousartisanship of the temple and inthe profusion of its golden orna-mentation that the national sanc-tuary has its place among the famousbuildings of the ancient world. As to other architectural achieve-ments, the Hebraic peoples were littledistinguished above the Architectural . ^ ^ insignificance of half-barbarous nations of Hebre-w towns. ., . -r\ i , i ,^ their age. Doubtless thetowns of Palestine and Phoenicia, likethose of the broader Syria round about,were picturesque in their situation anddistant view; but the low, square houses which composed such towns andcities, like the corresponding structuresin the same countries to-day, were un-known to art in either design or con-struction. This may be said also ofhouse decoration generally among theHebraic peoples. Even the ancientskill of their fathers in Mesopotamiaseems to have been lost in the westwardmigration of the Canaanites, and of the. POIIER AT THE by Paul Hardy, from a photograph. Phoenicians and Hebrews in barrenness of these races in pic-torial and plastic art is something thatmay well excite the astonishment of aftertimes. It might almost be ?^ _ Poverty of the said that the Hebraic peO- Hebrew race in, r T\/r i • art work proper. pies west of Mesopotamiahave never carved a statue or painted acanvas ! As compared with the facilityand abundance of Aryan, and evenHamitic, art, the Semites are totally 282 GREAT RACES OF MAXKLXD. eclipsed. The latter rose to the level ofcunning workmanship, and in a few in-stances to elegant and luxurious decora-tio
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