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A history of art in ancient Egypt (1883)

Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 245

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m the impossible. They did not appreciate thedifference between living things and those which we call inanimate.They endowed all things about them with souls like their own.They found no more difficulty in giving life to their carved andpainted domestics, than to the mummy or statue of the… … Fig. 99.—The tomb of Ti ; women, representing the hmds of the deceased, carrying the funeral gifts. This power to endow all things with life and personality is nowreserved for the poet and the infant, but in the primitive days ofcivilization it belonged to all people alike. Imagination hadthen a…

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