Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 18
remote period, and in the ruins of those lake citieswhich are almost as ancient as the caves whichsheltered the first inhabitants of our planet. Sculpture, as an art, gradually advanced as manbecame interested in the study of organised nature,of animals, and, finally, of himself. He was nolonger… … Fig. I.—Stone Age. self ; he realised that the human form is adaptedto the spirit, that it is, so to speak, its clothing ;that its proportions, its symmetry, its ease ofmotion, its superior beauty, render it alone, of allliving forms, capable of fully manifesting thought.
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