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must grow, becoming more beautiful at the demand 

 of Taste ; culling every flower, twining every vine 

 as in its own native thicket inviting even the 

 birds, until home itself shall seem to have sprung 

 from the earth, at the touch of some magician, 

 whose whole soul had drunk in the beauties of the 

 river, plain, and mountain. In this department of 

 the fine arts our country has most to hope, for the 

 poorest man can enjoy it as well as the rich. 

 Money is not wanted, as in the purchase of costly 

 pictures and fine statuary, but nature offers the 

 beauties all we need is the eye to perceive and the 

 power to combine the materials which she furnishes. 

 These constitute the democratic division of the fine 

 arts, equal to the best, and yet within the reach of 

 all. There are true, elevating, and unfailing sources 

 of enjoyment, which the poorest laborer can enjoy 

 as free as the air of heaven. They are in the field 

 he tills, along the road he travels, in the ocean 

 he navigates ; everywhere he looks he might see 

 more beautiful objects than adorn the galleries of 

 the richest nobleman. But to see them he must be 



taught to observe. He must study every object till 



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