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The Hindoos to him were the Greeks of the aboriginal world "diese Griechen der Urwelt" and so much better and more divine than the western Greeks, as the aboriginal world was better and more divine than that which came after it. If imagination was the prime, the creative faculty in man, here, in the holy Eddas, it had sat throned for thousands of years as high as the Himalayas.
In Painting, see Caylus, Memoires de l'ac des Inscr. Levesque, sur les Progres successifs de la Peinture chez les Grecs; I. I. Grund, Mahlerei der Griechen; Meyer's Kunstgischichte; Muller, Hist, of Ancient Art; Article on Painting, Ency. Brit., Article "Pictura," Smith's Dict.; Fuseli's Lectures; Sir Joshua Reynolds' Lectures. Lanzi's History of Painting refers to the revival of the art.
Cocker: Christianity and Greek Philosophy, pp. 377, ff. Zeller: Philosophie der Griechen, II, i, s. 926. Plato "never raised the question of the personality of God." Metaphysics, V, 1. Ibid.: x, 7. Metaphysics, xi, 6. E.g., Schwegler: History of Philosophy; Cocker; ut supra, p. 412, ff. xi, 6. xi, 7.
Bearing all these things in mind, we may understand the remark of the supremely cultivated Goethe, when asked who were his masters: Die Griechen, die Griechen, und immer die Griechen. We may appreciate the significance of Mr. Mill's argument in favour of the study of antiquity, that it preserves the tradition of an era of individual completeness.
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