A Story Outline of Evolution 



piece of flint into a cutting instrument or fashioned it into 

 a spear head, or struck from it a spark of fire, this was Art. 

 It was the changing of the forms of matter which Nature 

 had prepared into different forms more suited to his use. 

 We thus see that all created matter and the changes 

 wrought therein by man embrace the whole of Science and 

 of Art. But as Science, the knowledge of natural things, is 

 divided into many parts so also is Art divided into many 

 classes. 



The principal divisions of the work that man has done 

 may be properly divided into two general classes : viz., The 

 Useful Arts and The Fine Arts. The man who makes a 

 shovel, a plow, a horseshoe or who builds a house is just as 

 much an artist as the one who paints a picture or chisels a 

 piece of marble into an image of life. The Useful Arts 

 have become so commonplace that we seldom ascribe to 

 them the name of Art, yet many of the Grecian philosophers, 

 and Plato in particular, placed them on a higher pedestal in 

 Cultural Evolution than they did the Fine Arts because of 

 their usefulness to mankind. 



The Fine Arts are expressions of the human soul. They 

 are the efforts of man to re-create by his own hands the 

 beauties of Nature. From the flowers and verdure of 

 the countryside, the painter gets his inspiration of color 

 schemes, the snowflake gives to the architect and builder 

 its angles and designs, the rhythms of Nature and the 

 songs of the birds inspire the desire to reproduce them by 

 human effort. The material arts — Architecture, Sculpture 

 and Painting express the harmony, beauty and design of the 



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