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AN ART-STUDENT IN MUNICH.
In. one corner of the picture you see the architect, with
his plan of the tower, struck down and stoned to death by
two infuriated workmen. Already the tribes have began
to disperse. The minstrels to the left of Nimrod’s throne,
holding in their hands lyres of the most primitive fashion,
and admonishing the tyrant by word and gesture to ac-
knowledge the awful God, hasten to join the race of Japhet
already departing towards the west. Then’ wives, seated
on camels, beckon wildly to their lingering husbands with
beseeching hands. Far, far away, stream multitudes, on
foot, on horses, on camels, away, away, across those hills
out into the world ! Here a strong warrior, naked except
for his helmet, formed from the head of some wild horned
beast, and his fluttering lion-skin mantle, holding spears in
his hand and with his sword girt around him, rushes madly
away on a snorting horse, swift as the wind; two slim
youths,—one holding his bow, his quiver slung across his
shoulder, the other swinging a sling,—grasp the long mane
of the horse and fly along with him. Another warrior
follows madly behind them: on rushes his steed, but with
averted head he watches the solemn lightning cloud which
bears Jehovah.
Away, away, out into the world, fly the ancestors of the
Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Scandinavians, the
Germans, with spears and shields to battle for liberty, for
beauty, for chivalry, for the noble rights of humanity !
In front of Nimrod’s throne, the race of Ham, to which
race belong Nimrod himself and the luckless architect,
assemble themselves. A half idiotic priest, cowering
over his three-headed idol, which he presses to his breast,
is seated upon a shaggy, sullen bison, its horns decorated
with ponderous pendant ornaments, its back covered with a
barbaric matting. Frantic worshippers surround him; one
savage-looking girl, with matted elf-locks and clad in skins,
seizes the robe of the priest and licks it with her tongue.
AN ART-STUDENT IN MUNICH.
In. one corner of the picture you see the architect, with
his plan of the tower, struck down and stoned to death by
two infuriated workmen. Already the tribes have began
to disperse. The minstrels to the left of Nimrod’s throne,
holding in their hands lyres of the most primitive fashion,
and admonishing the tyrant by word and gesture to ac-
knowledge the awful God, hasten to join the race of Japhet
already departing towards the west. Then’ wives, seated
on camels, beckon wildly to their lingering husbands with
beseeching hands. Far, far away, stream multitudes, on
foot, on horses, on camels, away, away, across those hills
out into the world ! Here a strong warrior, naked except
for his helmet, formed from the head of some wild horned
beast, and his fluttering lion-skin mantle, holding spears in
his hand and with his sword girt around him, rushes madly
away on a snorting horse, swift as the wind; two slim
youths,—one holding his bow, his quiver slung across his
shoulder, the other swinging a sling,—grasp the long mane
of the horse and fly along with him. Another warrior
follows madly behind them: on rushes his steed, but with
averted head he watches the solemn lightning cloud which
bears Jehovah.
Away, away, out into the world, fly the ancestors of the
Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Scandinavians, the
Germans, with spears and shields to battle for liberty, for
beauty, for chivalry, for the noble rights of humanity !
In front of Nimrod’s throne, the race of Ham, to which
race belong Nimrod himself and the luckless architect,
assemble themselves. A half idiotic priest, cowering
over his three-headed idol, which he presses to his breast,
is seated upon a shaggy, sullen bison, its horns decorated
with ponderous pendant ornaments, its back covered with a
barbaric matting. Frantic worshippers surround him; one
savage-looking girl, with matted elf-locks and clad in skins,
seizes the robe of the priest and licks it with her tongue.