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tremest largeness of meaning which we can assign to the 

 word Art. In this sense, Art is equivalent to Move- 

 ment, Manifestation, Modification, Modulation, in a 

 word, to all Creation and Evolution, in the Universe 

 at large. Nature furnishes the Materials or Substance, 

 Science BEING, (or ACCORDING WITH), the Form or Law 

 impressed upon the Substance, in the Operation or 

 Result, or in the Movement and Evolution, which are 

 here, by an unusual extension, it is true, of the mean- 

 ing of that term, denominated Art. All Art is re- 

 presentation^ or a new presentation of Matter in a form 

 prescribed by Mind. Art is, therefore, also denom- 

 inated Creation. 



51. Nature, Science and Art are, therefore, in the 

 extended meanings which are here assigned to them, 

 as if we should say, more abstractly, 1. SUBSTANCE, 

 2. FORM, and 3. MOVEMENT ; or, still more metaphys- 

 ically, 1. The Noumena, 2. The Phenomena, and 3. 

 The Compoundness and Coaction of these two in the 

 Totality of Being. 



52. But Nature, Science and Art, while echoing to 

 or corresponding with Substance, Form and Move- 

 ment, are more ostensible and real Departments of 

 Being. As here meant, they go back to the Primitive 

 or Etymological Meanings of these Words, Substance 

 and Form. Substance is from the Latin sub, UNDER, 

 and stans, STANDING, (from stare, TO STAND), as it were 

 & foundation standing under a house, and as, figura- 

 tively, the Substance of Things stands under or under- 

 lies the Appearance or Form. Form is the Latin 

 Forma, and this Abstract Noun I regard as originally 



