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Lecture IL What came of it first was the complete freedom
Art and the of art in the midst of a society that had at least be-
Beauty of gun to free itself from religious & political fetters*
the Earth* Art was no longer now, as in Egypt of olden time,
kept rigidly within certain prescribed bounds that
no fancy might play with, no imagination over-
pass, lest the majesty of the beautiful symbols
might be clouded and the memory of the awful
mysteries they symbolized become dim in the
hearts of men* Nor was it any longer as in the
Greece of Pericles, wherein no thought might be
expressed that could not be expressed in perfect
form* Art was free* "Whatever a man thought of,
that he might bring to light by the labour of his
hands, to be praised and wondered at by his fel-
lows* Whatever man had thought in him of any
kind, & skill in him of any kind to express it, he
was deemed good enough to be used for his own
pleasure & the pleasure of his fellows; in this art
nothing & nobody was wasted; all people east of
the Atlantic felt this art; from Bokhara to Gab
way, from Iceland to Madras, all the world glit-
tered with its brightness and quivered with its vb
gour* It cast down the partitions of race & religion
also* Christianand Mussulmanweremadejoyful
by it; Kelt, Teuton, & Latin raised it up together;
Persian, Tartar, and Arab gave and took its gifts
from one another* Consideringhowoldtheworld
is it was not too long-lived at its best* In the days
when Norwegian, Dane, and Icelander stalked
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Art and the of art in the midst of a society that had at least be-
Beauty of gun to free itself from religious & political fetters*
the Earth* Art was no longer now, as in Egypt of olden time,
kept rigidly within certain prescribed bounds that
no fancy might play with, no imagination over-
pass, lest the majesty of the beautiful symbols
might be clouded and the memory of the awful
mysteries they symbolized become dim in the
hearts of men* Nor was it any longer as in the
Greece of Pericles, wherein no thought might be
expressed that could not be expressed in perfect
form* Art was free* "Whatever a man thought of,
that he might bring to light by the labour of his
hands, to be praised and wondered at by his fel-
lows* Whatever man had thought in him of any
kind, & skill in him of any kind to express it, he
was deemed good enough to be used for his own
pleasure & the pleasure of his fellows; in this art
nothing & nobody was wasted; all people east of
the Atlantic felt this art; from Bokhara to Gab
way, from Iceland to Madras, all the world glit-
tered with its brightness and quivered with its vb
gour* It cast down the partitions of race & religion
also* Christianand Mussulmanweremadejoyful
by it; Kelt, Teuton, & Latin raised it up together;
Persian, Tartar, and Arab gave and took its gifts
from one another* Consideringhowoldtheworld
is it was not too long-lived at its best* In the days
when Norwegian, Dane, and Icelander stalked
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