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and invigorated their powers,
glory on their country, which
has left a
subsequent
but
no
events have been able to obliterate, and which
never will be obliterated in any country where
the sublimity of art, involving the most refmed
embellishments
of
civilized
life,
is
cherished
by those who are in a capacity to cherish it.
" In a very early period of the
Greece,
arts in
we meet with
circumstance which
shows
the
advantages
derived
from
consulting
with
Phi-
losophyi
it does not also show the origin and
if
outset of those advantages.
The
circumstance
to which I allude is, that in the period when
the sculptors contented themselves with the
stationary
forms
and
appearance
of figures,
in
imitation of
their predecessors,
the
Egyptians ;
at
that
time
they began to submit
their works
to the judgment of philosophers,
one of whom,
being
called
in
to
survey
statue,
which
sculptor, then eminent, was going to expose to
public view, remarked, that the human figure
before him wanted motion, or that expression
Of intellect and will, from which motion and
character
too
must
arise ;
for
IIIZH
had
soul