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Difficulty of ending a story without end Art as universal 

 instinct Plastic art tracked by a footprint Primitive 

 expression of the colour-sense And of the actor's and 

 story-teller's arts Santayana criticised Insignificance 

 of art in relation to life An image of a cloudy sky 

 The cry that calls attention to something seen An 

 everlasting aspiration The artist's creed A way to 

 something better The author's credentials "Un- 

 emotional music " and the ordinary man A picture 

 seen in boyhood Sense of beauty a universal posses- 

 sion Definition of " field naturalist " The perpetual 

 flux of artistic theory, a sign of progress beyond art 

 An unanswered question . . . . . -319 



