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THE SOURCES OF DECORATION 5
variety of capacity in design and decoration
which has not been exceeded by any other
people.
The question of the origination of patterns
at one or more centres has been as disputed
as the origination of man himself from one
or more stocks. Probably some patterns
may have been re-invented in different ages
and countries ; but, as yet, we have far less
evidence of re-invention than we have of
copying. It is easy to pre-suppose a repeated
invention of designs, but we are concerned
with what has been, and not with what might
have been. Practically it is very difficult, or
almost impossible, to point out decoration
which is proved to have originated inde-
pendently, and not to have been copied from
the Egyptian kstock. The influences of the
variety of capacity in design and decoration
which has not been exceeded by any other
people.
The question of the origination of patterns
at one or more centres has been as disputed
as the origination of man himself from one
or more stocks. Probably some patterns
may have been re-invented in different ages
and countries ; but, as yet, we have far less
evidence of re-invention than we have of
copying. It is easy to pre-suppose a repeated
invention of designs, but we are concerned
with what has been, and not with what might
have been. Practically it is very difficult, or
almost impossible, to point out decoration
which is proved to have originated inde-
pendently, and not to have been copied from
the Egyptian kstock. The influences of the