. Art thoughts : the experiences and observations of an American amateur in Europe. CHAPTER III. THE ART AND RELIGION OF ETRURIA. MERICAN civilization leaves in the mind a sensationof rawness and restlessness. The imagination turnsfor relief to that future which looms up so impressivelyout of the present. Tliere is no escaping the con-viction, that there awaits America a material andmoral destiny, unparalleled in history, despite the aesthetic barren-ness of to-day. But for present enjoyment of this nature wemust turn to countries whose poetry and art are mature, or so in-terblended with the p
. Art thoughts : the experiences and observations of an American amateur in Europe. CHAPTER III. THE ART AND RELIGION OF ETRURIA. MERICAN civilization leaves in the mind a sensationof rawness and restlessness. The imagination turnsfor relief to that future which looms up so impressivelyout of the present. Tliere is no escaping the con-viction, that there awaits America a material andmoral destiny, unparalleled in history, despite the aesthetic barren-ness of to-day. But for present enjoyment of this nature wemust turn to countries whose poetry and art are mature, or so in-terblended with the past, that like the setting sun, they paint thedistant horizon in impassioned purple and gold, dissolving it intoshapes that speak of transcendent things. America is the landof promise, as Europe is of realization in art. The mystery liesin a primeval nature which unlocks its wealth to every is wanted that profounder mystery which enshrouds a spentcivilization, whose arts still survive to announce its former great-ness. Of all the old peoples of Italy that have made
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