ABSTRACT
The seasons on one hand, the diverse forms of life on the other, are thus linked up with life's normal phases. But so, too, is human life; indeed, the comparison of natural and human life is as old as literature; it is only since we learned to talk of "biology" and "sociology" as widely different sciences, that they seem far apart. The advancing sciences are coming to realize their manifold connections, their profound and intimate unity. The arts are striving towards unity, and this with widening aims, of expression and of citizenship. First is outlined the course of life with its mam periods of Youth, Maturity and Decline, expressed as the ascent, culmination and fall of a curve. The Olympian Circle is complete. Its architectural and sculptural presentment necessarily follows, and the plans of Athens, of Olympus or Eleusis may be interpreted more clearly.
