ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



though many of the scenes found in the 

 pictograph are more warlike than those of 

 the French artist. 



As a whole, the pictograph is animated by 

 a certain joy of living in which one feels an 

 amorous inspiration as well as the more im- 

 personal afflatus of Pan, even as one feels 

 in the beautiful stanzas of "In Memoriam" 

 the double inspiration of nature and friend- 

 ship. In each case the twofold inspiration 

 saves the work of each artist from the barren 

 exposition of a botanical vivisectionist who 

 loves his herbarium better than the wood rose 

 on its stalk. In a word, our pictograph is 

 the record of poets whose perception is rain- 

 bowed with imagination. 



As one studies the figures of the picto- 

 graph, one wonders what a skillful carver 

 of the human race could do on a pine bough 

 of the same size, were he asked to unify into 

 one coherent whole his sylvan impressions of 

 the same grove in which this classic was 

 found. That the early human inhabitants 

 of our country certainly failed to produce 

 anything half so artistic in their pictographs 



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