-: render itself to the world and not .-or 



mysl 



It cannot be too much insisted on, art does not depend 

 upon subject. Rembrandt saw subjecl . and 



transmuted the dust to gold. W getting near 



nature in all things, lite, literature, law. art, mar/ 

 ligion, sloughing off the - f centuries. 



is lending a powerful hand. 

 ican loves adornment, which is a kind of art. and is wil 



-tend tor it. American s* ins ss - 



conspicuous while the E re clumsy at it. Our 



houses are more neatly constructed than in the Provio 3. 



Allston was the greatest artist we have produced, a man 

 cast in the mould of the old masters but miss _ ^.is time. 

 leridge as he was potentially great. Land- 



seer, the greatest English artist of our generation, and 

 the only one of genius, - si - in in pri 5J 

 ing is chalky and thin. _ -'.. live among animals 



and should do them well as the Gi - I the human 

 form which they constantly saw. and the Venetians } 

 inspired by the .round ti. . I the vicinity 



intercourse of the East. 



The aesthetic is horn in man as early as the religi 

 or intellectual. The savage 1 - er begins to beat his 

 neighbor's brains out but he can 3 - lub. lie p 

 his own body tor beauty or terror, but it requires a new 

 birth to know beauty intimately as Wordsworth, 



:e, knew it. We must go behind the conventional, 

 ver the "innoeeney of the eye." *strip the wil of 

 familiarity from things." Artists interpret, poets make 

 us know it. But among poets and artists there are 

 supersensuous, and the describers mere 

 have insight and ideality, and spiritual imagination, and 

 those who never get at the heart, the core, the soul of 



