. The Open court . Xi^&S! SlilKSl. A DISTINCTLY SULLIVANESQUE in feeling, mystic and beautiful. then gothic, as well as that of the Mohammedans that finally per-vaded the entire world. It seems strange to have to thank the fanatic Mohammedan asthe most important medium of transmission that art of the Orientever had. With him, as with the Goth, the Ostrogoth, the German,the Gaul, the Illyrian, and the other wild men who made incursionsinto civilization with the sole idea of rapine and conquest, he wasquickly tamed by the refinement and beauty of his unwonted sur-roundings. In
. The Open court . Xi^&S! SlilKSl. A DISTINCTLY SULLIVANESQUE in feeling, mystic and beautiful. then gothic, as well as that of the Mohammedans that finally per-vaded the entire world. It seems strange to have to thank the fanatic Mohammedan asthe most important medium of transmission that art of the Orientever had. With him, as with the Goth, the Ostrogoth, the German,the Gaul, the Illyrian, and the other wild men who made incursionsinto civilization with the sole idea of rapine and conquest, he wasquickly tamed by the refinement and beauty of his unwonted sur-roundings. In 637 Mohammedan invasions became the hordes of wild Arabs—Arabia had lapsed into a state of al-most primal savagery; its monuments buried, its people degenerated 610 THE OPEN COURT. into herders of cattle and roving bands of robbers—fanatical fol-lowers of the prophet, at first destroyed all that fell under theirhands. Art and its treasures had no significance for them. Soon,however, it began to exert an influence
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