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has now arrived when our truth is reveahng itself 

 as only a half-truth, and, turning to glance again 

 at our model for a fresh advance in inspiration, we 

 notice in her a feature which had previously escaped 

 us — the fields. 



" Many people enter God's Temple through 

 the doorway of Beauty " ; and upon this count, 

 also, the fields of the Alps are of obvious import. 

 I venture to think that an Alpine field, with all its 

 concomitant "accident" and consequent variety, 

 will have more to say to a larger number of 

 men and women than will a rockwork alone ; I 

 venture to think that a person who would not stop 

 longer than to patronise a rockwork, would stand 

 arrested and absorbed before the grass-lands and 

 their varied features. To the mass of mortals who 

 are not bespoken specialists in higher Alpines, the 

 meadows have no superiors in breadth, directness, 

 and simplicity of appeal. They are places where 

 the " man-in-the-street " is at once at home. They 

 require no special enthusiasm to make them accept- 

 able. Their beauty is as apparent to the " vulgar " 

 as it is to the elect; their charm is interesting 

 to all. 



And this interest means more than mere pleasure. 



