# The Dance of Life

Author: Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939

Genre: Category: Art

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65714

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Dance+of+Life+Ellis&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

IT has always been difficult for Man to realise that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. At the beginning, indeed, the primitive philosopher whose business it was to account for the origin of things usually came to the conclusion that the whole universe was a work of art, created by some Supreme Artist, in the way of artists, out of material that was practically nothing, even out of his own excretions, a method which, as children sometimes instinctively feel, is a kind of creative art. The most familiar to us of these primitive philosophical statements—and really a statement that is as...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-life-65714/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-life-65714/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-life-65714/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-life-65714/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-life-65714/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-life-65714/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dance-of-life-65714/chapters/2/index.md)