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To speak of this underlying view of the world is to embark upon matters of subjective judgment.

At the least, however, one may conclude that Geometric potters sensed a logical order ; ;

their principles of composition stand very close to those which appear in the Homeric epics and the hexameter line.

Their world, again, was a still simple, traditional age which was only slowly beginning to appreciate the complexity of life.

And perhaps an observer of the vases will not go too far in deducing that the outlook of their makers and users was basically stable and secure.

The storms of the past had died away, and the great upheaval which was to mark the following century had not yet begun to disturb men's minds.