24 PKOGKESS : ITS LAW AND CAUSE. 



Up of compoimd tiers of uniform curls, alternating with 

 tuisted tiers j^laced in a transverse direction, and arranged 

 with perfect regularity ; and the terminal tufts of the bulls' 

 tails are represented in exactly the same manner. With- 

 out tracing out analogous facts in early Christian art, in 

 which, though less striking, they are still visible, the ad- 

 vance in heterogeneity will be sufficiently manifest on 

 remembering that in the pictures of our own day the com- 

 position is endlessly varied ; the attitudes, faces, expres- 

 sions, unlike ; the subordinate objects different in size, form, 

 position, texture ; and more or less of contrast even in the 

 smallest details. Or, if we compare an Egyptian statue, 

 seated bolt upright on a block, with hands on knees, fin- 

 gers outspread and parallel, eyes looking straight forward, 

 and the two sides perfectly symmetrical in every particu- 

 lar, with a statue of the advanced Greel^ or the modern 

 school, which is asymmetrical in respect of the position of 

 the head, the body, the limbs, the arrangement of the hair, 

 dress, appendages, and in its relations to neighbouring 

 objects, we shall see the change from the homogeneous to 

 the heterogeneous clearly manifested. 



In the co-ordinate origin and gradual differentiation of 

 Poetry, Music and Dancing, we have another series of illus- 

 trations. Rhythm in speech, rhythm in sound, and rhythm 

 in motion, were in the beginning parts of the same thing, 

 and have only in process of time become separate things. 

 Among various existing barbarous tribes we find them still 

 united. The dances of savages are accompanied by some 

 kind of monotonous chant, the clapping of hands, the strik- 

 ing of rude instruments : there are measured movements, 

 measured words, and measured tones ; and the whole cere- 

 mony, usually having reference to war or sacrifice, is of 

 governmental character. In the early records of the his- 

 toi-ic races we similarly find these three forms of metrical 

 action united hi religious festivals. In the Hebrew writings 



