Excerpt from Art and Environment The reader will, I hope, bear this consideration in mind. It applies more or less to all the following chapters, to those especially dealing, besides Egyptian art, with Greek, Arab, Roman and Gothic; for in each Of these it has been my endeavour to seize in the art the racial trait, the gift or characteristic contributed by that people, and which embodies their own racial temperament, and this has to be done, not by frittering away the reader's attention Over meaningless and purposeless details, but by going straight to the positive, main attribute, and sticking to that, and wringing the sense out Of that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.