CHAPTER XVIII.
GREEK ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE, AND PAINTING.
THE GREEK SENSE OF BEAUTY.—The Greeks were artists by nature. "Ugliness gave them pain like a blow." Everything they made was beautiful. Beauty they placed next to holiness; indeed, they almost or quite made beauty and right the same thing. They are said to have thought it strange that Socrates was good, seeing he was so unprepossessing in appearance.
[Illustration: PELASGIAN MASONRY.]