Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Long Ago: As Interpreted by the Nineteenth Century
Does one take liberties with an old paint ing when he gives it an appropriate frame? Does an astronomer' take liberties with a star when he shows it to us as sextuple and variously col ored? Does a naturalist take liberties witlra Skeleton when, by the help of 1115 scientific infer ences (if you please, his scientific imagination), he presents it to us in its original ?esh and blood and in its nat1ve surroundings? Does the micro scop1st take liberties with the object in the focus of his instrument when he sees m 1t many particulars not noticed-by common Vision and describes them accordingly? Does. An artist take liberties 'with a, sketch by Titian when he divines from the few master strokes into which the great master has thrown his whole individual ity'the complete conception as it lay in that mas ter's mind? Does the preacher take liberties with his text when he declines to stop at its sur face meanings, and goes on to set vividly forth other meanings that are implied in these, even to the extent of an entire sermon?
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