. A history of art in ancient Egypt . from the Ancient Empire, in limestone. Boulak. Drawn by Bourgoin. When historians, living as long after our nineteenth century aswe do after the epochs of Memphite and Theban supremacy inEgypt, come to treat the history of the past, they will perhaps M. Melchoir de Vogue, C/iez /es Pharaons {Rrcue des Deux Mondes ofJan. 15, 1S77). VOL. I. I^ 74 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. look upon the ages which rolled away between the fall of Graeco-Roman civilization and the revival of learning in the fifteenth andsixteenth centuries as no longer than that which
. A history of art in ancient Egypt . from the Ancient Empire, in limestone. Boulak. Drawn by Bourgoin. When historians, living as long after our nineteenth century aswe do after the epochs of Memphite and Theban supremacy inEgypt, come to treat the history of the past, they will perhaps M. Melchoir de Vogue, C/iez /es Pharaons {Rrcue des Deux Mondes ofJan. 15, 1S77). VOL. I. I^ 74 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. look upon the ages which rolled away between the fall of Graeco-Roman civilization and the revival of learning in the fifteenth andsixteenth centuries as no longer than that which divided theancient from the middle empire of Egypt, or the latter from thedynasties of Thebes. In the distant future men will know, in avague fashion, that between the fall of Rome and the discoveryof printing, or that of America, there were great movementsamong the nations, and an apparent recoil of civilization; butmemory and imagination will leap without effort over the gap,over that period which we call the Middle Ages. The Roman. -c- D^lr,i^ft^lll>*^^ -i|i5t5, „,„,-^^ Fig. 48.—Woman kneading dough. Statuette from the Ancient Empire, in limestone. Drawn by Bourgoin. empire will seem to touch our modern civilization, and many ofthe differences which strike us so strongly will be will perceive that we had a new religion and new inven-tions, but they will take more account of the resemblances thanof the differences. Our languages, manners, laws, and forms ofgovernment will seem to them continuations of those of Greeceand Rome. In that which we call antiquity, and in ChristianEurope, they will find similar literary habits and standards ofcriticism, the same judicial nomenclature, the same terms formonarchy, empire, and republic, the same titles for kings and Change Observable in Egyptian Art. /o Caesars. These different civilizations are like star clusters. Tous who are among them they seem distinct enough, but to gene-rations which are divided from
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