Part 11 (1/2)

Theof which entire myth is, as I read it, that men and women must both eat their bread with toil That the first duty of man is to feed his family, and the first duty of the woiven us for strength and for delight, and that the wild beasts of the field must have their share with us [Footnote: The oak and apple boughs are placed, with the sa, by Sandro Botticelli, in the lap of Zipporah The figure of the bear is again represented by Jacopo della Quercia, on the north door of the Cathedral of Florence I a]

4 The fourth sculpture, for the centre-piece of the series on the west side, is nomad pastoral life

Jabal, the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle, lifts the curtain of his tent to look out upon his flock His dog watches it

5 Jubal, the father of all such as handle the harp and organ

That is to say, stringed and wind instruments;--the lyre and reed The first arts (with the Jew and Greek) of the shepherd David, and shepherd Apollo

Giotto has given hirandly in the sculptures of La Robbia and Donatello It is, I think, intended to be of wood, as now the long Swiss horn, and a long and shorter tube are bound together

6 Tubal Cain, the instructor of every artificer in brass and iron

Giotto represents hie of bronze on the anvil with extreme watchfulness

These last three sculptures, observe, represent the life of the race of Cain; of those who are wanderers, and have no ho Willie; yonder organ ipsy who is rass, which the squire has wanted so long to take into his park from the roadside

7 Then the last sculpture of the seven begins the story of the race of Seth, and of ho drunk under his trellised vine; such the general ie of civilized society, in the abstract, thinks Giotto

With several other s, universally known to the Catholic world of that day,--too many to be spoken of here

The second side of the tower represents, after this introduction, the sciences and arts of civilized or home life

8 Astronouidance of the stars; but to know the laws of _their_ nomadic life, your own must be fixed

The astrono on a fixed pivot, looks up to the vault of the heavens and beholds their zodiac; prescient of what else with optic glass the Tuscan artist viewed, at evening, from the top of Fesole

Above the dome of heaven, as yet unseen, are the Lord of the worlds and His angels To-day, the Dawn and the Daystar: to- in the heart

9 Defensive architecture The building of the watchtower The beginning of security in possession

10 Pottery Theof pot, cup, and platter The first civilized furniture; thedrink andof ani of clothes with swiftness, and in precision of structure, by help of the loom

13 Law, revealed as directly from heaven

14 Daedalus (not Icarus, but the father trying the wings) The conquest of the eleroup introduced the arts of hoe wanderer, this seventh of the second group introduces the arts of thewanderer

15 The Conquest of the Sea The hel as Venetians, face to bow

16 The Conquest of the Earth Hercules victor over Antaeus Beneficent strength of civilization crushi+ng the savageness of inhuh