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That pictorial representation of natural objects has not devel- 
oped uniformly in the course of time, is an established fact. Do 
we not find numerous paintings by old masters in which the 
landscape is crude and totally neglected, while upon the human 
figures all possible care and attention has been bestowed? Are 
Fic. 20.—Interior of a hut. 
of 
the soul, 
there not great compositions in existence in which the action 
the human figure portrays the innermost secrets of 
While the animals associated with them, were it not for their color, 
Would certainly even puzzle a zoologist? 
Whoever considers these circumstances will probably come to 
the Conclusion that the gap between a stone knife and an orna- 
mented piece of bone is not as unsurmountable as it seems. 
