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enabled to perceive clearly what he himself was pro- 

 ducing, and because of it beholders could behold, and 

 be lost in wonder and admiration. Let the man of 

 genius do his best, let him attempt the greatest things, 

 striving with all the power that is in him to idealise and 

 to realise his ideals, he will find in the waves of light 

 assistants and co-workers that respond to his conceptions, 

 that enable him to see and paint, and that make visible to 

 the kindred eye the supremest beauty that he can place 

 on canvas. Yea, he is not altogether worthy of them. 

 They can do better work than any which his genius 

 require at their hand. Who can paint like nature? 

 There are forms which no artist can limn; there are 

 colours which no genius can match ; there are faces and 

 expressions and beamings which no human hand can 

 represent, but there are none to which the waves of 

 light cannot do justice, none which they cannot convey 

 to all who can see. There is no fineness of work to 

 which they are not equal, for which they are not 

 sufficient. Let any beauty be found in nature, in garden 

 and landscape, in enlarged and grandest view, in sun- 

 risings and sunsettings, in graceful form and glowing 

 face and beaming eye, the ether waves and vibrations 

 will convey it, and present it to the onlooker with all 

 its charms. 



