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the highest conception of mortal beauty that 
the mind can form there lies always the 
unattainable, the unpossessed, suggesting 
the world of beauty and finality beyond 
mortal reach. It is in this power of sug- 
gestion that the Chinese poets excel. At 
least as far back as the year 1700 B.C. the 
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of Moreau’s he confesses to have taken 
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EcypTiAN EstHetics. By René Francis. 
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The author of Egyptian Esthetics sets 
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