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but have even stepped beyond this, the Romans going 

 up to 96, the Greeks even to 100. 



Whence comes it, that this unnatural face of the Gre- 

 cian works of art, is still more beautiful than that of the 

 Roman, when the latter comes nearer unto Nature ? 

 The reason thereof resides in the fact of the Grecian's 

 artistic face representing Nature's design more than that 

 of the Roman ; for in the former the nose is placed quite 

 perpendicular, or parallel to the spinal cord, and thus 

 returns whither it has been derived. 



3633. He who paints or otherwise copies Nature in a 

 purely mechanical manner, is consequently a bungler ; he 

 is devoid of ideas, and imitates her no better than a bird 

 does song, or an ape the postures of the human body. 

 The province of Art is alas ! not yet understood. 



3634. In Man all the beauties of nature are asso- 

 ciated or combined. 



3635. Thus, Nature can be beautiful, in so far as she 

 represents the individual ideas of Man. 



3636. There are only two art-senses, the eye and the 

 ear ; and thus but two departments of art, the Plastic 

 and Sonant, or that of form and of motion. 



3637. The province of form represents the material 

 universe in its ideas, its design, and thus in its freedom. 



3638. The representation of the bodily universe in the 

 ideas is the Architectural art. (Ed. 1st 1811, $ 3533.) 



3639. The representation of heaven in the Plastic, is 

 the church architecture. 



The temple or church is the art of heaven. 



3640. The representation of the planet in the Plastic 

 is the house. 



The house is the art of the planet. 

 The architectural art is the cosmical art. 



3641. The representation of the Individual is the 

 Sculptor s art. 



The sculptural art represents the Terrestrial, and in its 

 highest estate Man. It is the Heroic art. 



3642. This art rendered manifest in matter, or re- 

 peated in light, is Painting. 



