I have not referred to the great Pageants when High-Castes are buried who have been famous as Braves, either in distant forays with armed bands upon the Heathen, or among _Christian_ tribes of the Main Land. Or, perhaps, some high chief who has ordered the great _Fire-ships_ in burning and plundering beyond the Seas. I have not referred to these, because they _are_ merely shows, and do not in any sense apply any especial characteristic. One thing I have remarked--there seems to be no respect for the dead, they are immediately forgotten, and the very _monuments_ ordered to be set up probably never appear; or after so long a period, that a new generation wonders who can be meant by the _figure_ which rises in some public place! And when these _are_ once placed on their pedestals, neglect falls upon them in a mantle of indescribable filth. Even _royalty_ cannot have the royal robes of marble so much as washed by the common street hydrant [phi-pi]. It is impossible not to feel that the cold and coarse feelings of the Barbarians are, in respect of the dead, rendered more repulsive by the horrid features of the Idolatry. In this there is so much to brutalise and render callous, that it is only as _it_ is disregarded, that the natural human feelings come into play, and tenderness and delicacy find expression. CHAPTER VIII. OF ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND SOME WORDS ABOUT SCIENCE. [KRI-OTE]. Until recently the Barbarians had no proper style of Architecture, unless in Temples, Castles, and Ships. The dwellings, even in cities, were as ugly and inconvenient as it is possible to conceive. When the great Roman civilisation disappeared, the barbarous tribes for many ages so slowly improved, that the aspect of common life remained savage. The Priests of the Superstition, however, saved some tincture of Roman learning, and brought from Rome some of the older knowledge. These, however, directed their minds to the erection of Temples, and edifices designed for the objects of Priestcraft. Then arose those structures, truly wonderful, in stone, which exhibit so clearly the character of the gloomy Superstition: at first like those of Rome, but in time added to and changed, till at length the vast Temples, truly gigantic, called _Gothic_, arose.