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less the air is at this height, for there is nothing to 

 measure it by. Past the weald lie the south Downs, 

 but they form no boundary, the plain of the air goes 

 over them to the sea and space. " 



It is really a case of simplicity in variety, a type 

 repeated and varied, becoming something new con- 

 tinually, evolving new charms, yet keeping in view a 

 definite and foreordained unified beauty that is active 

 and changing, but unlike a river that flows on and on, 

 the type is ever returning on itself, melting together 

 and anon conflicting, contrasting, dominating one over 

 the other, and all the time actively advancing to new 

 conquests of beauty, to new charms of blended form and 

 colour. It is Hke the way the association of mother 

 and child actively helps to develop the beauties of the 

 characters of each person, bringing out the charm more 

 and more the longer they live together, or if mismanage- 

 ment of their relations occurs, the same tendency to 

 discord and deterioration wiU reveal itself. The trees 

 and shrubs are worked into a scheme, type within 

 type making the picture fuse together after presenting 

 different degrees of contrast, and finally wooing it to 

 enter into a union where the parts are hardly perceptible 

 to the general sweep of the eye. The play of forces ends 

 in a picture, which in every way continues to change 

 day by day while remaining of the same general char- 

 acter. If the woodland glades and the fields and hedge- 

 row are studied in the light of these suggestions, their 

 value will be more and more verified. The only differ- 



