The Progress., 1897-04-03
THE PROGRESS.

)GkESS.
whose commc,norat,on the pyramids were
hniIt. But Greek architecture did most for
the living Ignoring Egyptian preccdents
and borrowing nothing from other ma
ttons, Greek architecture carved It's own
columps, set its own ped1mcnts, adousteo
its own cntablatures rounded us own
holdings and carried out as never be1ore
the three qualities Of right building called
nv nm old author "flrmitas, utilitas, venu-
stas'-namcly, firmness, usefulness beau
ty. Although the Parthenon on the Acrop-
oils Of Athens Is only wreck OF the
storms and earthquakes and bonn ard-
Inents Of many centuries, anu althouen
Lord Elgin took from one slde OF th"S
building, at an expense OF $25o,o Oo, Two
shinloads of sculpture, one shipload going
down in the Mediterranean and the otner
shipload now to be found IN the BRUSH
museum, the Pnrthenon, though In COM
narrative ruins, has been an inspiration TO
all architects for centuries past ana WILL
be an inspiration all the time from now
until the world itself Is a temple OF ruin.
Oh. that Parthenon! One never gets over
having oncc seen it. But what must 1t
have been when 1t stood rs Its architects,
Ikitnos and Kallikrntes, built 1t out OF
Pentelican marble, white as Mont Blanc
at MONDAY and as overwhelming. Height
above height. Overlapping the august ana
majestic pile and rising from Its roof was
a statue Of Pallas Prolnachus In bronze,
10 tall and flashing that sailors far out at
.ea beheld the plume of her helmet. With
ont the aid OF the eternal God 1t never
could hayo been planned, and without the
Aid of God the chisels and trowcls never
could have constructed It. There Is not
fano church building In all the world, or
properly constructed courthouse. or beau
i an Ny1nYOOFYAtA audi.
torium. oe q tasteful home, which, because
Of that PaYthenon, whether It's style or
| aorne other style be adopted, is not direct
| " or Indirectly q debtor to the Greeks
But there is another art in my mind
tho most fascinating, ele~nting and In
spirins Of all arts and tho nearest TO the
| diytne-for which all the world owes .
| debt to the Hcllcnes that will never be
paid. mean sculpture At least $50 years
before Christ the Greeks perpetuated the
human face and form In terra Gotta and
marble. What blessing to the human
family that men and women. nightly use
full, who could live only within century
NAV be perpetuated for I'VE or six or ten
centuries! How wish TINT some sculptor
contemporaneous with Christ could have
nut his matchless form In marble! But
for every grand and exquisite statue OF
Martin Luther, Of John Knox, OF William
Penn, of Thomas Chalmers, of Wellington
Of Lafayette, OF any of the great statesmen
| or emancipa tors or oonquerors who adorr
yoor parks or I'LL the inches Of your acad
e,nics, you are debtors to the Greeks The,
| covered the Acropolis, they glorihed thu
). temples, they adorned the cemeteries Will
statues, some in cedar, some In ivory
some in silver. some in gold, some IN siz'
diminutive and some In size colossal
Thanks to Phidias, who worked In stone
, to Clealchus, who worked In bronze; .
Dontas who worked In gold, and to al
| ancient chisels of coInmelnorntion. Doyo'
, not realize that for many OF the wonder
. of sculpture we are debtors TO the Greeks
, Tho Art Of Healing.
Yea, for the science Of medicine, tn
| great art Of healing, we must thank tn
tGreeks There Is the immortal Greek doc
tor, Hippocrates, who first opened the 400
: for disease to go out and health to com
: in. He first set forth the Importance Q
cleanliness and sleep, making the patien
: before treatment to be washed and taK
slumber on the hide Of a sacrificed beast
Ne first discovered the Importance OF thor