PSYCHOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED 



is, it affects us in the same way. It pro- 

 duces in us the same physiological tensions, 

 and sometimes the same balance of tensions, 

 produced by an agreeable work of art. 

 The artificial landscape, a product of human 

 thought and invention, has the same quali- 

 ties of composition and purpose which any 

 work of art may have. The natural land- 

 scape, in particular, has unusual power, as, 

 for example, through its effect of distance, 

 of arousing in us the characteristic effects 

 of beauty. And, finally, the landscape 

 more than most works of art is infinitely 

 rich in the beauty of association. 



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