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tree. One of the pleasures they give is that of 

 unexpectedness. All that is asked of us is, that we 

 shall be prepared for them with eyes quick to recog- 

 nize and sensibilities to appreciate. This requires 

 training and exercise, and where one can have it, 

 instruction. It is not enough to be told that a 

 natural spectacle is beautiful; it is of advantage to 

 have the particular shade or phase of beauty pointed 

 out. The eye must be cultivated for form and 

 color as the ear is for music. Thus we may walk 

 all our lives along the aisles of galleries hung with 

 scenes far beyond the powers of the great masters. 



And indeed, it is the same in religion as in art, 

 the same in the spiritual as in the natural. "They 

 have eyes but they see not, ears but they hear not. " 

 To appreciate spiritual or moral beauty one must 

 strengthen the faculty by exercise. As in nature 

 there are beauties which arrest the attention at a 

 glance, so there are pure, noble, and generous acts 

 which do; but there are finer, more delicate, more 

 exquisite moral and spiritual beauties, a full appreci- 

 ation of which is not always given. If we were to 

 analyze the culture of the best society, the graces 

 which make it charming, we would find that they 

 are either genuine or simulated spiritual beauty. 

 Beauty is from God. We may paint a flower, but 

 it will only be attractive in the degree that it is true 

 to the model which God made. 



All of nature is not art. The ocean itself is so 

 drearily monotonous that the voyager counts the 



