PSYCHOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED 



And when, at the pinnacle of his inspira- 

 tion, he most clearly shadowed forth the 

 glories of the heavenly world, he said, 



He leadeth me in green pastures, 

 And beside th? still waters. 



Indeed, if any acquaintance of ours 

 should testify that he had never been 

 moved at the sight of any landscape, we 

 would deny him altogether. He might not 

 understand Beethoven, he might care noth- 

 ing for Shakespeare, he might be ignorant 

 of sculpture and painting, but if he had 

 never known the thrill that landscape can 

 give he would be a savage irreclaimable. 

 For only the brutes and the lowest savages 

 live in the landscape and do not see it. 



But, though it be true that "the 

 promiscuous natural landscape has no real 

 unity," — that is, no composition of parts, — 

 it is still able to affect us most agreeably. 

 The "equilibrium of tensions" cannot be 

 secured from the balancing of very diverse 

 and complicated elements, but there is 

 evidently present the same "aesthetic 

 repose." The beholder of a beautiful 

 landscape also experiences, in a most 

 marked degree, the favorable stimulation — 



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