Home › A › Art (METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF assume)

Art (METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF assume)

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF 275 assume the same general laws as science does, yet it follows them only into such of their detailed consequences as have into every secret corner, as well as into the open stores of the household of science, bent on finding out the necessities of which she is in search, and which the exigencies of human life demand.

The several arts may be arranged in two groups (a) the mechanical, and, (b) the liberal or fine arts. The mechanical arts are those which may be successfully followed by one who does not possess genius, but has acquired the facility of working with his hands which long practice imparts. Such are the arts watchmaker, etc. They are often called trades. The liberal or fine arts are such as give scope not merely to manual dexterity, but to genius; as music, painting, sculpture, architecture, etc.

The seven liberal arts, which, in the palmy days of Rome, plebians were not The seven liberal arts, which, in the allowed to study, were thus divided: (1) The Trivium-viz., grammar, rhetoric, and logic. (2) The Quadrivium viz., arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy.