How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 42
, for which the Per-sian wars were preparingthe way. By this time religious ideal-ism had developed to such an extent that each group of men had its own especialgods and goddesses, evolved by the unfolding but stillinfantile human mind after its own imrge. The greatermysteries of life had created… … FIG. 4—ASSYRIAN SCULPTUR HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE The sun and the planets, the laws of generation, the riseand fall of the tides, and other phenomena of nature be-came the study of a special class of scientists, who erectedtemples and created forms to fit the special plan of wor-ship, evolving a…
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