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feeling as to fire. We find plenty of chasers able to imitate the 
fur of animals or the texture of draperies, but few who understand 
the bones or the anatomy of the parts, and fewer still who carry 
an artist’s spirit into their works. In painting, also, the painter 
forms, which, however tastefully arranged they may be, render 
but too conspicuous the absence of real desi: 
It is easy to trace the history of design in ornament. If 
parallel, straight, or curved lines; afterwards, the design 
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merely imitating any object which strikes their fancy. _ They are 
no longer designers. The reason of this is clear. Finding the 
in the later periods of savage art. The modern red Indian has 
lost the rude yet inventive tastes of his less civilized forefathers. 
The same phenomena is noticeable in the history of civilized 
peoples. There was a period when English wood-carvers almost 
surpassed their Flemish and other continental instructors, but a8 
always applied in the wisest manner, hence the wonde “— 
lisplayed in the production of articles intended for perso ‘will 
adornment. . Give an English designer an ivy leaf and he ee 
reproduce the natural form with marvellous precision, but 
