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tion
THE GIFTS OF NATURE
enables us to pass a more than usually correct judgment upon the Recapituia-
powers and weaknesses of the Egyptian draughtsman and colorist.
Few will fail to admire his powers of composition and his decorative
instinct as shown in the offerings laid before the stela (Plate X), the
dancing-girls and the group of jars above them (Frontispiece), the row
of guests who chatter to the music of the harper (Plate XVII), the cat
absorbed in its meal (Plate X), the family group in the boat (Plate
XXIV), and the struggling mass of fowl within the clap-net (Plate
XXVI). All these we can appreciate, and thus by their publication
here they have carried forward a joy into an after-life and into a new
world vastly more distant in time, in space, and in character than the
Egyptian religion ever suggested to the scribe Nakht or his sister
Tawi.
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THE GIFTS OF NATURE
enables us to pass a more than usually correct judgment upon the Recapituia-
powers and weaknesses of the Egyptian draughtsman and colorist.
Few will fail to admire his powers of composition and his decorative
instinct as shown in the offerings laid before the stela (Plate X), the
dancing-girls and the group of jars above them (Frontispiece), the row
of guests who chatter to the music of the harper (Plate XVII), the cat
absorbed in its meal (Plate X), the family group in the boat (Plate
XXIV), and the struggling mass of fowl within the clap-net (Plate
XXVI). All these we can appreciate, and thus by their publication
here they have carried forward a joy into an after-life and into a new
world vastly more distant in time, in space, and in character than the
Egyptian religion ever suggested to the scribe Nakht or his sister
Tawi.
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