PSYCHOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED 



duce that "exaltation with repose" — that 

 excitation of tensions brought into equi- 

 librium — ^which we have learned to think 

 is characteristic of the feeling of beauty. 



We have still einother and a very im- 

 portant quality of landscape to consider. 

 This is the one that psychologists call ex- 

 pression, and that the common people speak 

 of as association. Almost every work of 

 art has these associations which, in our 

 minds, always cluster round it. We can 

 not hear the Doxology sung without think- 

 ing of refreshing hours in church, perhaps 

 of particular churches in which we used to 

 worship, and of dear friends whom we 

 knew there. An old song will sometimes 

 almost move us to tears, — not because it 

 is so beautiful, but because of the flood of 

 recollections which it brings to us. The 

 Angelus suggests to us all the hard toil 

 of the peasants' life with the faithful piety 

 which ennobles it. 



So the landscape is capable of a great 

 deal of expression. It may be filled with 

 pleasant or moving associations. The 

 checkered farms spread out upon the hill- 

 sides or snuggling in the valleys suggest to 

 us all the pleasant memories of farm life; 



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