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Title: Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Collins, Arthur H
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism Animals in art Church architecture Church decoration and ornament
Publisher: London : Sir I. Pitman & sons,ltd.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE that they can never lie down, but have totake their rest by leaning against trees.From this circumstance an ingenious methodof capture had been devised by thenatives. The same remarks as to want of scientificaccuracy apply, generally speaking, to theGreeks with the exception of Aristotle.Alexandria, the birthplace of the Bestiarieswas an emporium of the learning and super-stitions of the world; the meeting placeof East and West, Greek, Roman, Jew,Egyptian, in fact of scholars and tradersfrom all parts. It was the Alexandrinescholars who translated the Old Testamentinto the Greek of the Septuagint, withwhich our early Christian writers are sofamiliar. Alexandrine scholarship and theology hadmany peculiarities. Some there were whotried to reconcile and combine the teachingof Greek philosophers with the teaching ofChrist. Others, again, prominently Origen,interpreted the Bible, and even the naturalhistory of the Bible, in a mystical or symbolicsense. The resul

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