272 LORD GRIMTHORPE 
perpetuate the memory of his delight, and to impart some portion 
of it to others, is born of that soul. When that external picture is 
on the canvas it is not philosophical to show how pigments are 
composed, how they coalesce with canvas, how given motions 
must result in given forms, the pigments being what they are, and 
then to dispense with Turner, as well as with his conception and 
performance of the whole. Just as surely as that picture on canvas 
came of man, who could make and manipulate canvas, so surely did 
the inward picture on mind which gave birth to it come from One 
who had made and could act upon mind. 
The picture of light in the mind of Milton, and that of.the starry 
sky in the mind of Kant, were as much real events in the history of 
ur planet as our sunshiny showers or phosphorescence at sea. 
Those two inward pictures belonged to a world in which wood or 
stone have no part—to a world as much above the orbit of animals 
as the path of the eagle is above that of the waggoner. They not 
only left behind all power of animals to attain to them, but all 
human power to embody them in any painting. Words go further 
here than forms and colours, because they more directly admit mind 
to the views of mind, suggesting the beauties as they shone 
inwardly, not as they were built up outwardly. If to the two eases 
named we add Newton’s contemplations of light, and then consider 
how much effect on human thought and feeling, consequently 
upon human pursuits and action, has been produced by the 
allurement to scientific research which the charm of light brought 
to bear on Newton, by the intellectual stimulus to lofty speculation 
it gave to Kant, by the sublime emotion wherewith it inspired 
Milton, we have some slight hint of the potency of beauty as a 
practical force in human affairs. We have also some idea of the 
grossness of that conception of it which sees in it only a matter of 
habit and fashion. The two supreme beauties known to earth, that 
of the light of day and the lights of night, with all of human delight 
and elevation to which they have given birth, flash exposure on the 
school which would reduce beauty to a thing of habit and fashion. 
It would not be more unscientific to say that light itself is a matter 
of tallow chandling. 
In the commerce of mind with body, the place held ce beauty, 
when bodies present themselves to mind through the eye, is 
analagous to that held by pleasures special to each of the other 
senses when they are the channels of communication. Taste brings 
us sweetness, touch the pleasures of genial warmth, and many others, 
smell those of perfumes, and hearing those of music, whether that 
of speech, of song, or of the woods. All these may be viewed as 
