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ANCIENT AIM.'.
virtuous soul to a body full of vigour.1 They who
were possessed of beauty, were esteemed the hap-
piest of men, and honoured by the gods. According
to an ancient tradition, it was Love who gave to
Greece the Fine Arts. Pausanias says that the
Venus of Megalopolis was called Mechanitis, or
the artist, " because, for the sake of beauty, most
of the operations of art take place." It is the
beautiful, says Lucian, which exalts the virtues,
which adds charms to justice, to wisdom, and to
superior merit, pre-eminent merit, KaXoK&yaSoe, KaXoicuyaSia,
a word which we see repeated a thousand times on the Greek
vases, applied to every kind of person, and from every kind of
motive—through friendship, through gratitude, through piety;
a word, in fine, which comprising at once the idea of physical
beauty and of moral beauty, considered as inseparable, thus offered
to the mind a perfect image, similar to that which was presented
to our eyes by the beautiful productions of art."'—Raoul-Bochette,
Lectures on Ancient Art, p. 133.
" The sculptures of the Greeks display the mind ; they aim at
a character, rather than an individual expression, even where there
was a necessity to preserve resemblance, and where they did pre-
serve it; they soar from the humbler to the more elevated display,
from the personal to the moral, from the private object to the
public instruction."—Bromley, i. 303.
1 Lucian. In Anach. "Amongst the Greeks, the best man,
and the most highly honoured by the public, was he who could
manifest the greatest personal worth, and the most superior
ability. All were invited to a competion, where whatever was
truly excellent in nature, in conduct, and in arts ; whatever was
great, admirable, and becoming ; whatever could tend to give the
greatest degree of finish and completeness to the human cha-
racter, was the object of general admiration."—Harrxfs Lectures,
lect. i.
ANCIENT AIM.'.
virtuous soul to a body full of vigour.1 They who
were possessed of beauty, were esteemed the hap-
piest of men, and honoured by the gods. According
to an ancient tradition, it was Love who gave to
Greece the Fine Arts. Pausanias says that the
Venus of Megalopolis was called Mechanitis, or
the artist, " because, for the sake of beauty, most
of the operations of art take place." It is the
beautiful, says Lucian, which exalts the virtues,
which adds charms to justice, to wisdom, and to
superior merit, pre-eminent merit, KaXoK&yaSoe, KaXoicuyaSia,
a word which we see repeated a thousand times on the Greek
vases, applied to every kind of person, and from every kind of
motive—through friendship, through gratitude, through piety;
a word, in fine, which comprising at once the idea of physical
beauty and of moral beauty, considered as inseparable, thus offered
to the mind a perfect image, similar to that which was presented
to our eyes by the beautiful productions of art."'—Raoul-Bochette,
Lectures on Ancient Art, p. 133.
" The sculptures of the Greeks display the mind ; they aim at
a character, rather than an individual expression, even where there
was a necessity to preserve resemblance, and where they did pre-
serve it; they soar from the humbler to the more elevated display,
from the personal to the moral, from the private object to the
public instruction."—Bromley, i. 303.
1 Lucian. In Anach. "Amongst the Greeks, the best man,
and the most highly honoured by the public, was he who could
manifest the greatest personal worth, and the most superior
ability. All were invited to a competion, where whatever was
truly excellent in nature, in conduct, and in arts ; whatever was
great, admirable, and becoming ; whatever could tend to give the
greatest degree of finish and completeness to the human cha-
racter, was the object of general admiration."—Harrxfs Lectures,
lect. i.