The Negro, the Turanian, and the Aryan: their characteristics, facial angle, amount of brain, and artistic capacities-- Space and time--Art treated historically--Pottery in its development--Generalisation and its advantage 22 CHAPTER III. PRE-HISTORIC AND SAVAGE ART. Traces of man’s inventive and decorative force in by-gone ages--Classification of pre-historic products--The old stone age--The new stone age--The bronze and iron ages-- Man’s first dwellings--Houses and temples--Lake-or pile-dwellings in their gradual development--Cranoges or wooden islands--Art in the western hemisphere--The stucco in the rock-hewn temple at Mitla in Mexico-- Difference between art-products in North, Central, and South America--Cuzco, near Lake Titicaca--Pottery as a reliable historical record--The wild and fantastic mode of ornamentation in America, and its causes 32 CHAPTER IV. CHINESE ART. The Chinese language--The holy books of the Chinese--The sacred number five--Principle of ornamentation--Their towns--The wall with the Chinese not yet a completing part of the building--The enclosure, the frame, and the substructure--The trellis-work of the Chinese and its subdivision--Their Tshao-pings and Miaos--Mode of colouring--Silk-weavings and their usual patterns-- Feather works and embroideries--Their deficiencies in painting--Their pottery--Causes of their failings in art in a higher sense. 45 CHAPTER V. INDIA, PERSIA, ASSYRIA, AND BABYLON. The Aryans on this and the other side of the Himâlâyan Mountains--Science and art the offsprings of religion-- Endeavours to express abstract phenomena in concrete signs--The symbolic, dialectic, and mythological periods-- The Indian trinity--The principal divinities of India, and their analogy with the Egyptian, Persian, and Greek gods-- Indian epic poetry--The rock-hewn temples and Buddha-- Stucco ornamentation--Causes of the gorgeousness of Indian art--Persia and the Persians--Their five cosmical elements--Historical development--The Zend-Avesta-- Persepolis and its oldest monuments--Zoroaster--The Persian trinity--Light and darkness--Why no temples were constructed--The Babylonians and Ninivites--Their principles of ornamentation--Their wall decorations 60 CHAPTER VI. EGYPTIAN ART.