. The builders of the pyramid; the story of Shelby County: its resources and developments . Central Column from ihe Palace-Temple at Karnac. The Egyptian, with true decorative instinct, clung to his pic-torial writing, and was rewarded by having the most beautiful 91 chirography that has ever existed. This is seen in their adaptationof the scenes of peace and war to the gigantic mural surfaces of thepylons and temples, in their arrangements of ornament on smallobjects of daily life and in all things decorative either in coloror drawing. To study the elements of decorative design, both in color
. The builders of the pyramid; the story of Shelby County: its resources and developments . Central Column from ihe Palace-Temple at Karnac. The Egyptian, with true decorative instinct, clung to his pic-torial writing, and was rewarded by having the most beautiful 91 chirography that has ever existed. This is seen in their adaptationof the scenes of peace and war to the gigantic mural surfaces of thepylons and temples, in their arrangements of ornament on smallobjects of daily life and in all things decorative either in coloror drawing. To study the elements of decorative design, both in color andin drawing, it is to Egypt we must turn for our inspiration. All ourknowledge of decorative art is but an evolution from the Egyptian,. CHERUBIC FIGURES WITH THE TAU CROSS FROM THE ARK OFaMEURA under TAHUTMES III. changed and modified, but, by analysis, still Egyptian. It is fromthis source we get our simplest forms of geometrical ornament, oflines, spirals and curves, and the division of sui faces by curves andstraight lines. In symbolic ornamentation the Egyptians showed amaster spirit. In symbolizing secular or religious meanings theywere unsurpassed. 92 CHEOPS OF EGYPT. This pyramid of Cheops transcends the other pyramids in in-tellectual value. It is instructive not only on account of its giantsize, but its wondrous internal structure, its superior age and its in-scrutable destiny of purpose; the greatest of the seven wonders ofthe world in the days of the Greeks, and the only one of them stillin existence. It is the earliest stone building erected in any coun-try in the world, and it has ever been styled a wondrous andmysterious monument. Was this monument erected to symbolizein any way the religion of the Egypt
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