CHAPTER IX 



HOME BEAUTY 



THE Artist in his quest for Natural Beauty will have 

 pursued it in the remotest and wildest parts of the 

 Earth, where he can see Nature in her primeval and 

 most elemental simplicity. He will have seen her 

 in many and most varied aspects the grandest, the 

 wildest, and the most luxuriant. And from these 

 numerous and so different manifestations of Nature 

 he will have been enabled more fully to understand 

 her meaning and comprehend her soul. Moreover, 

 this contemplation of Nature will have evoked from 

 within himself much that he had never suspected he 

 possessed, and thereby his own soul also he will have 

 learned to understand. And from this completer 

 comprehension of his own soul and hers will have 

 emerged a fuller community of heart between 

 him and Nature. He will have come to worship 

 her with a still more ardent devotion, and through 

 the intensity of his love discovered richer and richer 

 Beauty in her. 



But even yet he has not seen Natural Beauty 

 where it can be found in its highest perfection. 

 Only when there can be the most intimate possible 

 relationship between him and the natural object he 

 is contemplating can Beauty at its finest be seen. 

 And this closest correspondence of all between him 

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