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Title: History of art
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Faure, Elie, 1873-1937 Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York and London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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him to move northward or southward.Nourishing vegetation, roots, fruit, and grain sproutedfrom a soil that does not exhaust itself. He held outhis hand and gathered up life. When he entered thewoods to draw water from the great rivers or to seekmaterials for his house, death rose up irresistibly,carried along by the waves, as with the crocodile,hidden in the thickets, as with the tiger, writhing underthe grasses with the cobra, or breaking down the ram-part of trees with the step of the elephant. Scarcely,if at all, in the nocturnal tangle of tree stems, thebranches, and the leaves, could he distinguish themovement of animal life from the movement of rottingmatter and the flowering of herbs. Born of the hiddenfermentations in which life and death fuse, the torrentof sap which feeds our universe burst from the luxuri- INDIA 5 ant body of the earth in healthful fruits and poisonousflowers. The mingling aspects of generosity and cruelty thatnature offered to man disarmed him mentally and
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Sanchi (hi Century B.C.). A gate of the Stupa. physically. The possibility of attaining a moral ideal,to be reached only through the conquest of tremendousforests and multiplied temptations, seemed to him asinaccessible as the brow of the Himalayas which liftedthe highest glaciers of the earth into the blue light of 6 MEDIAEVAL ART the north. Accepting Hfe and death with the sameindifference, he had to do no more than lay open hissenses to the penetration of the universe and permitthe gradual rise from his instincts to his soul of thatgrandiose, confused pantheism which is the whole of

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