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accurate and systematic study, and it seems almost 

 to implant within them a new sense. What ex- 

 clamations of surprise and admiration break forth 

 from them in their excursions ! What new flowers 

 they now discover ! they have been treading upon 

 them unheeding their beauties all their lives. What 

 strange birds ! they have been flitting above their 

 heads for twenty summers. And now, by this sim- 

 ple process, there is awakened the power of perceiv- 

 ing and appreciating the beautiful, that seems like 

 the richness and music of spring compared with the 

 death of winter. When carried farther, there comes 

 the power of combining these objects so as to repro- 

 duce, when we please, the same sweet scenes which 

 nature plans in some far-off hill or glen. To pro- 

 duce this general effect, it may be thought that 

 only general notions are needed. This is undoubt- 

 edly true, if we refer to the emotion of grandeur, in 

 producing which magnitude is more powerful than 

 form. But for the emotion of "beauty ^ we must have 

 these objects arranged as he only can arrange them 

 who has studied their minutest marking, every form, 

 and every tint. 



