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STUDIES IN GREEK ART.
toils which our race is born to undergo have given then
the Muses, Apollo and Dionysos.”
There are few things sadder than to note this fluctua-
tion of tone. At one time the high doctrine of ideal
art securely preached, ringing like a clear voice through
the upper air ; at another, because the sins and sorrows
of his country have made the best impossible, because
the ideal is forgotten and art has become but an
“ imitation of the visible properties of things ” (ή ehcaata
των όρωμβνων),ο.ί one moment the bitter protest because
amendment seemed possible; at another, because hope
seems gone, the sorrowful admission of man’s frailty with
only an undertone of regret. Plato himself must learn
that, in art as in religion,<r many are the thyrsos-bearers,
few are the mystics.”
STUDIES IN GREEK ART.
toils which our race is born to undergo have given then
the Muses, Apollo and Dionysos.”
There are few things sadder than to note this fluctua-
tion of tone. At one time the high doctrine of ideal
art securely preached, ringing like a clear voice through
the upper air ; at another, because the sins and sorrows
of his country have made the best impossible, because
the ideal is forgotten and art has become but an
“ imitation of the visible properties of things ” (ή ehcaata
των όρωμβνων),ο.ί one moment the bitter protest because
amendment seemed possible; at another, because hope
seems gone, the sorrowful admission of man’s frailty with
only an undertone of regret. Plato himself must learn
that, in art as in religion,<r many are the thyrsos-bearers,
few are the mystics.”