History of art . v^ J «a***?*- Mexico. Palace of Mitla. cynocephali, even as the Peruvians drew out the topsof their vessels or flattened them down into the headsof dogs, of pumas, of ducks, and alligators. But inEgypt there was a purer and a loftier spirit. And ifshe was sometimes moved by her bent for irony, a verydiscreet and subtle tendency, she seldom went so faras caricature. Instead of heaping up her cadavers inearthen vases, she stretched them out in troughs ofgranite. She possessed the cult of form even beyondthe grave, and purified the form to the point of abstrac-tion. The wing of t
History of art . v^ J «a***?*- Mexico. Palace of Mitla. cynocephali, even as the Peruvians drew out the topsof their vessels or flattened them down into the headsof dogs, of pumas, of ducks, and alligators. But inEgypt there was a purer and a loftier spirit. And ifshe was sometimes moved by her bent for irony, a verydiscreet and subtle tendency, she seldom went so faras caricature. Instead of heaping up her cadavers inearthen vases, she stretched them out in troughs ofgranite. She possessed the cult of form even beyondthe grave, and purified the form to the point of abstrac-tion. The wing of the mind had touched it—and ourworld was to issue from that contact. But in Peru also there was no lack either of ingenious THE TROPICS 191 social systems or of great dreams. Does not an Aymarlegend show the creator peopling the earth with statueswhich he animates and to which he intrusts the mis-sion of civilizing the world? In no other cosmogonyis this profound myth to be found. The old Peruvianpoets had felt
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