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inability to reproduce Tom, Jack, and Harry, powerful and 

 animated types of individual life, it will be forced to do as 

 Michel Angelo and William Blake did, with deeper and 

 more modest reverence for fact than they possessed. Michel 

 Angelo cared much for the human body ; Blake cared little 

 for it. Both violated the truth and excellence of nature 

 the one by studied mathematical hypertrophy of form 

 the other by visionary disregard of structure. But both 

 succeeded in making the body symbolic of emotion and of 

 thought. 



We might parody the famous saying of Pascal, and declare 

 that the consummate artist must be a realiste accompli and 

 an idealiste soumis. In other words, he must use the truest 

 truth of nature, the most scientific grasp on actual form, in 

 the service of imaginative symbolism. He must at one and 

 the same time both obey and control the model, departing 

 at no point from its teaching, but utilising its character and 

 individuality for the further purpose of expression. 



