Giotto represents him as sitting, _fully robed_, turning a wedge of
bronze on the anvil with extreme watchfulness.
These last three sculptures, observe, represent the life of the race
of Cain; of those who are wanderers, and have no home. _Nomad_ pastoral
life; Nomad artistic life, Wandering Willie; yonder organ man, whom you
want to send the policeman after, and the gipsy who is mending the old
schoolmistress's kettle on the grass, which the squire has wanted so
long to take into his park from the roadside.
7. Then the last sculpture of the seven begins the story of the race of
Seth, and of home life. The father of it lying drunk under his trellised
vine; such the general image of civilized society, in the abstract,
thinks Giotto.
With several other meanings, universally known to the Catholic world of
that day,--too many to be spoken of here.
The second side of the tower represents, after this introduction, the
sciences and arts of civilized or home life.
8. Astronomy. In nomad life you may serve yourself of the guidance of
the stars; but to know the laws of _their_ nomadic life, your own must
be fixed.
The astronomer, with his sextant revolving on a fixed pivot, looks up
to the vault of the heavens and beholds their zodiac; prescient of what
else with optic glass the Tuscan artist viewed, at evening, from the top
of Fésole.
Above the dome of heaven, as yet unseen, are the Lord of the worlds and
His angels. To-day, the Dawn and the Daystar: to-morrow, the Daystar
arising in the heart.
9. Defensive architecture. The building of the watchtower. The beginning
of security in possession.
10. Pottery. The making of pot, cup, and platter. The first civilized
furniture; the means of heating liquid, and serving drink and meat with
decency and economy.