CHAPTER X. 



The Developing of Art. 



\V7 E have thus far seen that since Cultural Evolution 

 began, nothing has changed but human thought. The 

 Searchers have been studying and classifying the forms, 

 structures, composition, laws and uses of the natural objects 

 and the forces of Nature and their relation to each other 

 and they find that Nature Is the expression of the Divine 

 Plan of Creation for nothing In all the world has come by 

 chance. But as primitive man began to understand and to 

 reason from cause to effect, he began to see beauty and 

 harmony In all things around him and to construct and put 

 together the things about him which Nature had prepared 

 in order that they might better serve him in a useful way and 

 add to his comfort and happiness. 



The knowledge which man has acquired about Nature 

 is called "Science" while the work he has done In changing 

 the forms of Nature Is called "Art." He can neither create 

 nor add to matter but he can change Its forms. Art Is there- 

 fore the expression of the h^man mind in changing natural 

 objects and forces so as to better fit them to his use. After 

 he had left the trees and had come down to occupy the 

 caverns of the earth, his Art began to manifest itself in 

 carvings on cavern walls and on bone and ivory and also In 

 drawings and pictures of the chase. When he chipped a 



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