THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



where he has his garden and all his polite 

 and well-ordered pleasures. Harvey has 

 been twenty-two years in Iowa in the real 

 estate business. There is no need to make 

 an inventory of their present differences. 

 Any one can do that without ever seeing 

 the two men. Harvey's character is like 

 the broad open plains; Paul's is like the 

 rich and beautiful, but immovable granite 

 hills. 



In our own characters, if we will look 

 into them, we may trace yet more pleiinly 

 the effects of landscape. I know very 

 well what those twenty-five years on the 

 Kansas plains have meant to me, and also 

 the years in the mountJiins. 



It is hardly necessary to recall how 

 often the landscape has been the inspiration 

 for the best artists, — especially poets and 

 painters. This ought to be noticed, too, 

 that the best poetry began with love of 

 nature and after men left off flirting with 

 impossible goddesses; and also that paint- 

 ing was stiff and formal till the landscape 

 began to dominate it. So that in all strict- 

 ness one may say that in art the dis- 

 covery of leuidscape has made humanity 

 more human and divinity more divine. It 



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