364 THE LAW OF EVOLUTION CONTINUED. 



expression or non-expression of face. If a palm-grove is in- 

 troduced, all the trees are of the same height, have the same 

 number of leaves, and are equidistant. When water is 

 imitated, each wave is a counterpart of the rest; and the fish, 

 almost always of one kind, are evenly distributed over the 

 surface. The beards of the kings, the gods, and the winged- 

 figures, are everywhere similar; as are the manes of the 

 lions, and equally so those of the horses. Hair is represented 

 throughout by one form of curl. The king's beard is quite 

 architecturally built up of compound tiers of uniform curls, 

 alternating with twisted tiers placed in a transverse direc- 

 tion, and arranged with perfect regularity; and the terminal 

 tufts of tho bulls' tails are represented in exactly the same 

 manner. Without tracing out analogous facts in 



early Christian art, in which, though less striking, they are 

 still visible, the advance in heterogeneity will be sufficiently 

 manifest on remembering that in the pictures of our own 

 day the composition is endlessly varied ; the attitudes, faces, 

 expressions, 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, fingers 

 outspread and parallel, eyes looking straight forward, and 

 the two sides perfectly symmetrical in every particular, with 

 a statue of the advanced Greek 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, append- 

 ages, and in its relations to neighbouring objects, we shall 

 see the change from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous 

 clearly manifested. 



125. In the co-ordinate origin and gradual differen- 

 tiation of Poetry, Music, and Dancing, we have another 

 series of illustrations. Ehythm 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 sepa- 



