A poet could scarcely attribute to the gods a work that his audience knew an artificer in their own city had made! [181] See Odyssey, book vii.
[182] The effect of the arts, habits, and manners of a foreign country is immeasurably more important upon us if we visit that country, than if we merely receive visits from its natives.

For example, the number of French emigrants who crowded our shores at the time of the French revolution very slightly influenced English customs, etc.

But the effect of the French upon us when, after the peace, our own countrymen flocked to France, was immense.
[183] Herod., lib.ii., c.

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[184] Grecian architecture seems to have been more free from obligation to any technical secrets of Egyptian art than Grecian statuary or painting.

For, in the first place, it is more than doubtful whether the Doric order was not invented in European Greece long prior to the reign of Psammetichus [The earliest known temple at Corinth is supposed by Col.