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Description:Excerpt from Annual Oration, 1887 The Muse of Hellas stood upon Olympus, looking southward. At her feet lay a block of Parian marble, formless and stained with soil. Before her winged vision space yielded, and Egypt's Art, once free, but now bound by artificial laws, ranging in order its creations, exclaimed, "Lo, the highest; lo, the unsurpassable!" But that prescient spirit saw the fetters, and turned away. Musing, she lifted the coarse block, and, shaping it first in uncouth lines borrowed from the south, sought then, in the image of the ideal visible to her inner eye, to form the unformed, removing every fetter, every clinging chain, until the marble rose and spoke. Stand where thou wilt, lover of thy country, and, looking backward and forward, thou shalt recognize the opportunity placed in our hands of giving to the world a truer, fuller expression of the ideal in government, in art and in religion than any history records. But how act in view of this our responsibility? Is the morn breaking, and shall we await her coming upon the eastern hills? The morn is not breaking; our eyes may not behold the day when, the insatiate thirst for gain in a measure stilled, the worship of the material become less all-engrossing. Art, the noble, the majestic, shall come and the old forms receive a new and higher life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Annual Oration, 1887 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Annual Oration, 1887 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Annual Oration, 1887 The Muse of Hellas stood upon Olympus, looking southward. At her feet lay a block of Parian marble, formless and stained with soil. Before her winged vision space yielded, and Egypt's Art, once free, but now bound by artificial laws, ranging in order its creations, exclaimed, "Lo, the highest; lo, the unsurpassable!" But that prescient spirit saw the fetters, and turned away. Musing, she lifted the coarse block, and, shaping it first in uncouth lines borrowed from the south, sought then, in the image of the ideal visible to her inner eye, to form the unformed, removing every fetter, every clinging chain, until the marble rose and spoke. Stand where thou wilt, lover of thy country, and, looking backward and forward, thou shalt recognize the opportunity placed in our hands of giving to the world a truer, fuller expression of the ideal in government, in art and in religion than any history records. But how act in view of this our responsibility? Is the morn breaking, and shall we await her coming upon the eastern hills? The morn is not breaking; our eyes may not behold the day when, the insatiate thirst for gain in a measure stilled, the worship of the material become less all-engrossing. Art, the noble, the majestic, shall come and the old forms receive a new and higher life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Annual Oration, 1887 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Annual Oration, 1887 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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