The rise, fall and revival of dental prosthesis / by B.J. Cigrand.

  • Bernard J. Cigrand
Date:
1893
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Credit: The rise, fall and revival of dental prosthesis / by B.J. Cigrand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hibited skill were called works of art, and to the present day the term art, in its broad signification, is applied to every skillful, physical, or intellectual performance, from the making of a shoe to the modeling of a statue, from the pantomime of the stage to the oratory of the forum. But as the arts have multiplied, terms of distinction have be- come necessary, as fine arts and mechanical arts- with all their subdivisions. “The distinguishing characteristic of the fine arts is their ideality. In this the line of demarka- tion between them and the mechanical and all other arts is unmistakably distinct. “It is for this feature we look in any work that claims this high rank, and by this standard we judge of its pretension. The mechanical arts are distinguished for their physical utility. They may demand consummate skill for their execution; they may require for their development rare inven- tive faculties, and their combinations of mechanical principles may be truly wonderful, but their indi- vidual works require but little effort of the brain in their reproduction; education in skillful manual labor without the capacity to originate a single new idea is all that is required. The laws which gov- ern their reproduction are those of mathematics, and to be able to copy a given form with exactness is the sum of the talent required. “They maybe directly of more practical value
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