This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...at Old Nick, and if he sticks up his head in the shape of a rum-cask 01 Blavery I go for a crack at it. There is one great distinction between the productions of Heathen and of Christian art. While the first exhibits the perfection of physical form and of intellectual beauty, the latter expresses also the majesty of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...at Old Nick, and if he sticks up his head in the shape of a rum-cask 01 Blavery I go for a crack at it. There is one great distinction between the productions of Heathen and of Christian art. While the first exhibits the perfection of physical form and of intellectual beauty, the latter expresses also the majesty of sorrow, the grandeur of endurance, the idea of triumph refined from agony. In all those shapes of old there is nothing like the glory of the martyr, the sublimity of patience and resignation, the dignity of the thorn-crowned Jesus. It is easy to account for this. In that Heathen age the soul had received no higher inspiration. It was only after the advent of Christ that men realized the greatness of sorrow and endurance. It was not until the history of the Garden, the Judgment-hall, and the Cross had been developed, that genius caught nobler conceptions of the beautiful. This fact is, therefore, a powerful witness to the truth of Christianity. Christ's personality, as delineated in the gospels, is not only demonstrated by a change of dynasties, --an entire new movement in the world, --a breaking up of its ancient order; but the moral ideal which now leads human action, which has wrought this enthusiasm, and propelled man thus strangely forward, has entered the subjective realities of the soul, breathed a new inspiration upon it, opened up to it a new conception; and lo! the statue dilates with a diviner expression, --lo! the picture wears a more lustrous and spiritual beauty. Christ, then, has verily lived; for his image has been re fleeted in the minds of men, and has fastened itself there among their most intimate and vivid conceptions. Poetry is the utterance of truth--deep, heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle. If a railroad c...
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