Art and Science 



article (Mrs. Hilliard) goes on to tell us that 

 Pausanias mentions two statues of the black 

 Venus, and says that the oldest statue of Ceres 

 among the Phigalenses was black. She adds 

 that Minerva Aglaurus, the daughter of 

 Cecrops, at Athens, was black ; that Corinth 

 had a black Venus, as also the Thespians ; 

 that the oracles of Dodona and Delphi were 

 founded by black doves, the emissaries of 

 Venus, and that the Isis Multimammia in 

 the Capitol at Rome is black. 



Sometimes I have asked myself whether 

 the Church does not intend to suggest that 

 the whole story falls outside the domain of 

 history, and is to be held as the one great 

 epos, or myth, common to all mankind; 

 adaptable by each nation according to its 

 own several needs ; translatable, so to speak, 

 into the facts of each individual nation, as the 

 written word is translatable into its lan- 

 guage, but appertaining to the realm of the 

 imagination rather than to that of the under- 

 standing, and precious for spiritual rather than 

 literal truths. More briefly, I have wondered 



whether she may not intend that such details 



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