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corresponding with momentum in mechanics, is a compound of force and matter destined to serve as the foundation of the subsequent continuous movement of mankind.

Through this principle of association creeds become special to races, and the Temple finds its origin; the forms of Temples always varying architecturally with every varying form of creed. As we shall see more fully, when we come to the History of Specific Arts, from the religious sentiment, as embodied in the idol, the tomb, and the Temple, sprang the earliest monuments of architecture, invoking, for their perfect type, Sculpture and Painting.

For those who would desire to enter, in greater and stricter detail, upon the study of the successive stages by which men have realised art perceptions, and the distinctions which separate Technical Arts from Fine Arts, and purely intellectual culture, from culture in which the education of the senses plays the most conspicuous part, I would earnestly recommend a study of the admirable essay on "Beauty in Art," by Mr Fergusson. In that work they will find correctly classified and tabulated, all the almost infinitely variable family of human studies and intellectual perceptions. To Rhetoric, Music, Science, Poetry, and the Fine Arts, their respective places in relation to one another and to all other technical and intellectual studies will be found assigned; and I think it will be also found, that the great and special characteristic, which separates that group of the arts which it is our duty to consider, namely, the Fine Arts, from all the many arts he dwells upon with such enthusiasm and learning, will be found in the fact, that the delight to be derived from them comes to us, primitively, through our admiration, of all we may be able to deem perfect in the works of man's hands, as contra-distinguished from the works of God.

Although the Fine Arts depend for their perfection upon those principles which are found to constitute the perfection