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manner that the various objects represented in it appear
to have the same sizes, shapes, and positions, relatively
to each other , that the actual objects as located in
actual space would have if seen by the beholder from a
single determined point of view. I have discovered nothing
to justify the belief that the Greeks had any idea, either in
practice or theory, at any time, of the conception
contained in the italicized words in the preceding
sentence.
The study of the Bible in the Middle Ages achieved
conflicting patterns of expression which the economic and
social historian is also familiar with. The conflict was between
those who said that the sacred text was a complex unified at
the literal level, and those who felt that the levels of meaning
should be taken one at a time in a specialist spirit. This conflict