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harmless illusion about Growth and Decay?” But it
happens not to be so harmless, because it implies
another doctrine. Implicit in the formula is the dogma
that earlier Greek artists must have been striving all the
while to attain a naturalism, to achieve a life-like imitation
that was beyond their powers. Yet, reverting to literary
comparison, it is not generally claimed that in dramatic
presentation, Aeschylus, to take an example, was
struggling to be as true to life as Menander; or
Shakespeare as true to life as Shaw. It is even
conceivable—rather probable—that Aeschylus would have
disapproved of the New Comedy, and Shakespeare of
Shaw.
Seltman keeps the whole range of Greek interests in
simultaneous play, as it were, waiting for the intrusion of a new