72 NATURAL HISTORY 



In painting and sculpture, the human mind is 

 striving for the same that appears in poetry, and the 

 adorning of common language. That love of the 

 beautiful must not only be gratified with descrip- 

 tions upon which the thought can dwell, but we 

 would look into the minds of others and see the 

 pictures into which imagination weaves these ob- 

 jects for them. It is only as they can present to the 

 the eye, by the pencil and chisel, the subjects of 

 their thoughts, that we can compare our imaginary 

 scenes with theirs, and learn what different emotions 

 the same words and the same objects awaken in 

 different minds. 



As nature is the storehouse from which wri- 

 ters draw, and the pattern according to which 

 they must work, so must this also be true of the 

 painter and sculptor, who would trace upon the 

 canvas, and chisel from cold marble, figures that 

 shall glow forever with the warm expression of 

 life. 



There is a mathematical law of development, and 

 a constancy of expression in the minute markings of 

 species that nature never omits, which can never be 



