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in action as the photograph shows him he 

 moves less vigorously than he does when 

 all four legs are impossibly thrust out. 

 When the broad painter strikes out a tree, 

 puts in a figure, gives you a distant field 

 with a wipe of the brush, he is false to 

 detail, but true to effect. In music some 

 of the finest resolutions are from discord 

 into harmony, whereas, theoretically, there 

 should be no discord. Take the E that 

 sounds through the close of the " Siegfried 

 Idyl," sounds with the continuity and 

 depth of a distant sea. As the key modu- 

 lates into B and F# minor, so the bass 

 should change, but the result would be 

 petty, lifeless. The E tones on, defiant of 

 alterations in the melody, and the mind 

 rests on it, as it does on a firm base in 

 architecture. It is the breadth in art of 

 all kinds, the freedom, soundness, surety, 

 repose, that make it great. Littleness, fus- 

 siness, over-elaboration, are never caught 

 from the material world. 



The great charm of nature is that it fits 

 itself to every one of our selves and every 

 one of our humors, and we thereby get a. 



