Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-20


phatically essential to sculpture. Yes
and it is necessary to understand the
science of numbers, the mathematics and
geometry of nature, in order to be great
architects That is why the Peristyle
hall of Amenophis III. at Luxor, the
great hall of Columns at Karnak, the
temple of GiZeh, the pyramids and the
sphinx are still standing, a monument to
the great intellectual development Of
the ancient Egyptians and a mystery TO
all succeeding generations.
Also the later period represented by
| the Parthenion of Athens called the
| GLORY of Greece the exquisite and un-
| rivaled statues of Athens and Zeus OF
Phidias," the Aphrodite Of Praxiteles,
| and many another had we only the time
! to review them. We are told these sculp-
! tors besides representing forms of ex-
| quiste symmetry also impaired some
| thing of the softness of flesh to the stone.
| The best art critics of our time have
| pronounced them absolutely correct, an
atomically in every line and measure
| ment not varying fraction of an inch:
! that their chief beauty lies in being able
| to locate every part of the anatomy,
| which is more than can be said of some
of the later artists and proves the an
|
| ence of anatomy.
Not to detract from the sublime grand
ure and enduring frame of the artists of
the Renaissance, but that it should stand
to us as a shadow to the idea back of il.
THE thought that prod.ced the object"
| Truly it looks to those who live only in
| the present as if since the worlds crea-
ton there has been but one age of real
| kOOWIpNpa he
| age.
Yet in the misty twilight in the gray
| dawn of history. stand the pale shad-
ows of old sages OF world renown Who
according to modern science We're CROP
ing blindly about for correct meaning
| to their own mysteries. the secret of
| which was unknown until the arc light
| of modern science and research was
| thrown upon it,
| According to some. the noontide bright
ness of knowledge has only now dawned
upon the world and the scientist basking
in the sunlight of his redscoveries loudly
boasts that his is the first solving of prob
lens as old as the universe and all this
in spite of the fact that the ultimate ply
steal atom of two years ago was an ele-
| plant in comparison to the latest report
| Of the chemist.
Yes mathematics and geometry We're
the backbone of ancient philosophy. Ply
thagores rediscovered it in part Plato
taught it, but even they We're unable to
solve the problem of the pyramids.
Why is it that the most advanced point
reached in our time only enables us to
see in the dim distance the monumental
proof that earlier explorers have left to
mark the height they have reached and
occupied numberless years ago.
If the modern masters are so much in
advance of the old ones. why do they not
restore to us. the unfading color of Lux
on The Tyrian Purple. the brilliant YER
million and the dazzling blue which deco
rate that place and are as bright today
as upon that of their application? Why
have they not discovered the indistructa-
ble cement of the pyramids and ancient
acqueducts. The Damascus blade which
can be turned like a cork screw in its
scabbard without breaking? also the
great secrets of chemistry and astro-
nomy? The more archaeology and phllo-
logy advance, the more humiliating to
our pride, the discoveries that are daily
made and the more glorious testimony do
they bear in behalf of those who have
been and still are considered by some the
ignorant hounderers of the deepest mire
of superstition.
Sir Isaac Newton recognized this, fol
after all his great discoveries in astron-
omy, he exclaimed. "Ah! I have only
gathered a few sands from the shores OF
the ocean of knowledge
The question will arise. Why spen6
so much time in rctrospection. when We
have eternity before us? But may mol
the answer be. to enable us to live the
more real in the present and to teach
us good and wholesome lesson. thai
we of the twentieth century have moi
reached the zenith of our Knowledge
that, while a great deal has been &C
complished in the last five hundred
years. we have ten times five hundred
years in the past to scan: also to take
from US the conceit and egotism o.
present greatness. which is most soul
killing parasite In other words to ell.
able us to think, and by thinking te
build character. by avoiding the pitfalls
of the past. father only the gems. tha
we may build unon firmer foundation
and not fall into oblivion.
The objection may be raised that h,
! looking into the past we return to tf'
: Dark Ages" and Heather Nations.
The dark ages but represent the mid
die period and not the real light beyond
: and the heather are but those who have
sunk into ignorance and superstition wht
may be found in any age of the world
? and become death dealing micrObe Il
, any nation.
Following this line we all have a Ger
! tain amount of respect for stronl
, character, whether for good or evil
While we deplore the evil we recognize
the force. and as in the great econom.
? of nature, nothing is lost that fore
: will be utilized for a purpose therefore
: that power is superior to a passive piec
? of physical matter" Whose soul Will
l yet alive is sleeping and they are un
t able to think out a line of action 70
Y themselves, hence are actually charac
, terless.
l Again by looking into the past we Sc
t nay, rather feel that we are but dro
| in that great ocean of life Whic]