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CONCLUSIONS 



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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 



