Excerpt from Dawn of Art in the Ancient World: An Archaeological Sketch The kernel of the following book is the substance of three lectures, delivered at the Royal Institution in January 1891. These have been entirely rewritten and approximately doubled in length; but, even in their revised state, they are not to be regarded as forming a handbook, however brief, of the large subject with which they deal. They are, and are intended to be, of a personal character. They present, not a simple and precise survey of known facts with regard to the beginnings of art and civilisation in the ancient world, but rather an account of the deductions, impressions, hardy generalisations, and even sometimes (if you will) of the guesses of an individual mind in the presence of those facts. Discovery advances apace. Since these sheets have been printed off, important papers have been read at the Oriental Congress, to which reference might have been made in the text. 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.