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into the hearts of men that Natural Beauty also first 

 dawned upon them. It is through that love that 

 Natural Beauty has been continually growing in 

 fulness and splendour. And it will be through that 

 same love of man and woman for each other that 

 the Artist will see Natural Beauty reach its highest 

 perfection. For in this love man first learned to 

 enter into the soul of another, to recognise same- 

 nesses between himself and another, and to live in 

 communion with another. And so in time he came 

 to recognise samenesses between what was in his 

 heart and what was in the Heart of Nature, to enter 

 into communion with Nature, and through the 

 wedding of himself with Nature see the Beauty in 

 her. He was able in some slight degree to be 

 towards Nature what we see the midge buzzing 

 round a man must be if that midge is to see the 

 beauty of man. Just as the midge, if it is to see the 

 beauty in man, must be able to recognise same- 

 nesses between its life and the life of man, so man 

 to see Beauty in Nature had to recognise identity 

 of life between him and Nature as he was first in- 

 spired to see it through the love of man and woman 

 for each other. And now the Artist with his wide 

 experience of Nature and united with his own 

 countrywoman in his own country will recognise a 

 still closer identity between himself and Nature, 

 and so see an even fuller Beauty in her^ 



Assuming the man and woman, both by their 

 upbringing and by outward circumstances, to have 

 been able to develop the best capacities within them 

 and to be meeting now under conditions most 

 favourable for their union, we shall see how perfect 



