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ON TASTE IN ORNAMENTAL DESIGN. 



Paet II. 



possessing, as we do, the means of tracing the successive 

 development and comparative antiquity of so many early 

 people ; and we are not surprised that the Egyptians should 

 (as Plato tells us) have looked upon the Greeks as " children" 

 in the world's history, without " any ideas derived from remote 



(48.) 







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tradition, or any discipline existing from an early period." In- 

 deed, from their forms, as well as their details, many of the 

 gold and silver vases represented in Egyptian paintings, as 

 early as 1440 B.C., might almost be attributed to Greek work- 

 men* (see woodcut 48); and it would be interesting to trace 

 the various types and ornaments which were borrowed by the 

 Greeks from Egypt and other countries ; but the subject is too 



* See my "Egyptians in the Time of the Pharaohs," pp. 42— 47; and 

 pp. 154—161. 



