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History of art (1921)

Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 32

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t. Scarcely,if at all, in the nocturnal tangle of tree stems, thebranches, and the leaves, could he distinguish themovement of animal life from the movement of rottingmatter and the flowering of herbs. Born of the hiddenfermentations in which life and death fuse, the torrentof sap which feeds our… … Sanchi (hi Century B.C.). A gate of the Stupa. physically. The possibility of attaining a moral ideal,to be reached only through the conquest of tremendousforests and multiplied temptations, seemed to him asinaccessible as the brow of the Himalayas which liftedthe highest glaciers of the earth into…

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