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AGE OF C1M0N AND PERICLES.
THIRD PERIOD.
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CAREER OF
PERICLES TO THE END OF THE PELO-
PONNESIAN WAR. 01. 80-94 (B-c- 460-404).
CHAPTER XV.
AGE OF CIMON AND PERICLES.
IN the period at which we have now arrived everything was prepared
to enable the Greeks to attain the highest excellence in plastic- art:
abundance of the finest materials—bronze, marble, ivory and gold—
perfect technical skill, profound knowledge of the form and motions of
the human frame, and last, not least, a wide-spread love of art in the
community at large, which assured to the deserving artist full appre-
ciation and rich reward. Nothing in fact is wanting but some impulse
which should stir the heart of the Greek nation to its depths, and
inspire and nerve it to the highest achievements in policy and war, in
literature and art. And this impulse came, in the fulness of time,
from the side of the most formidable enemy of Greece and Europe
—from Persia, whose inveterate hostility conferred on the Hellenic
people, and through them on all succeeding generations, the same
unspeakable blessings which accrued to us and to mankind from
the enmity of the Spanish despot in the age of Elizabeth and
her successors. Desperate as were the odds against which they
AGE OF C1M0N AND PERICLES.
THIRD PERIOD.
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CAREER OF
PERICLES TO THE END OF THE PELO-
PONNESIAN WAR. 01. 80-94 (B-c- 460-404).
CHAPTER XV.
AGE OF CIMON AND PERICLES.
IN the period at which we have now arrived everything was prepared
to enable the Greeks to attain the highest excellence in plastic- art:
abundance of the finest materials—bronze, marble, ivory and gold—
perfect technical skill, profound knowledge of the form and motions of
the human frame, and last, not least, a wide-spread love of art in the
community at large, which assured to the deserving artist full appre-
ciation and rich reward. Nothing in fact is wanting but some impulse
which should stir the heart of the Greek nation to its depths, and
inspire and nerve it to the highest achievements in policy and war, in
literature and art. And this impulse came, in the fulness of time,
from the side of the most formidable enemy of Greece and Europe
—from Persia, whose inveterate hostility conferred on the Hellenic
people, and through them on all succeeding generations, the same
unspeakable blessings which accrued to us and to mankind from
the enmity of the Spanish despot in the age of Elizabeth and
her successors. Desperate as were the odds against which they