. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. al value of the influence exerted by these sculpturesends where it has succeeded in transporting us, in ourminds and emotions, back to Arcady. When we canmentally visualize Greece in her Golden Age, and haveentered into the spirit which made the Arcadians whatthey were, then we can go on and freely express our-selves as they did; and, upon that foundation, proceed t
. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. al value of the influence exerted by these sculpturesends where it has succeeded in transporting us, in ourminds and emotions, back to Arcady. When we canmentally visualize Greece in her Golden Age, and haveentered into the spirit which made the Arcadians whatthey were, then we can go on and freely express our-selves as they did; and, upon that foundation, proceed toadapt and originate in accordance with our native giftsand the added inpulses belonging to our own age. Our first object is to recreate and reinhabit Arcady,because we need a definite ideal that satisfies our aesthet-ic sense. Where has there existed another such ideal?Nowhere in the Orient in any period, for the reason thatthe Oriental mind and ours are at opposite poles. Oursagas of the West do not reveal anything of the kind, forin their heroes and heroines the essential quality of 8ixty-on« Votive incense, as from a novice to the Priestess of the Temple—an attitudeof graceful humility combined with pride in Our Debt to Classic Sculpture serenity was wholly absent. Our fairy lore deals withthe supernatural, the fantastic, and therefore helps usnot at all. Only Arcady and the Arcadians supply whatwe lack, and their sculpture marks the only sure roadleading back to them. It is well known that others have been before usin this conclusion. It is equally apparent that somethingis lacking in what they have built upon that analysis it appears that they have seized upon theessential elements, but that instead of assimilating andadapting them in a way consistent with practical as wellas aesthetic usefulness in our modern world, they adhererigidly to the unanimated fixed forms of a dead civiliza-tion. For example, one very conscientious student ofclassi
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