(liftt'ient sensations in the mind. This is 
simple and natural but the iniud is com- 
plex; bj' means of an inborn facidty, the 
functions of wiiich we do not u^.derstand, 
it forms certain relations between sounds, 
forms and thoughts; relations, though 
stranfije they may seem, are none Ihe 
less real. 
When we consider » people who have 
given expression to the loftiest ideal of 
beauty in form, tlie memory of which 
has endured through the ages, we may 
justly believe that the result was pro- 
duced by a harmony of the various forms 
of art; all fired by the same motive, and 
directed to the same purpose. The people 
who first realized the value of this bar 
mony instituted the theater, the most per- 
fect expression of the unity of the arts, 
and which has become an indispensable 
feature to refined and intelligent people. 
The Greeks were bold, indeed, when 
they ventured to unite the ditfereut forms 
of art in tht-ir theaters, to form an oi- 
chestral union, that together they might 
arouse in the minds of the people a har- 
monious sentiment; to unfold out of these 
elements of art a symphony, as it were, 
in which each of them should utter, at a 
given moment, its part of one complete, 
musical union. 
In later days, when the theater of the 
Greeks had been vanquished by the pow- 
er of Rome, these concerts of the arts 
were held again, but in a different fash- 
ion. The people of the middle ages were 
not ignorant of the close relation exist- 
ing between the different forms of art, 
when they built their gothic cathedrals; 
for in them the noble architectuie and 
the music, the sculpture and the painting, 
the inspiring ceremony and the voice of 
the chanting i)riest seemed to direct all 
souls to one sublime, heavenly thought 
Jf antiquity possessed this scenic pow- 
er to an exalted degree, the MediiEval 
period, in this respect was no less richly 
endowed. 
Art should be considered as a single 
agent, taking upon itself, different forms 
to impress the minds of men ; and it is 
when these different forms are combined 
or placed in concord, at the same time 
and place; when actuated by the same 
motive, they produce the most vivid and 
lasting emotion that man can experience. 
The epochs which have thus given ex- 
pression to the most heavenly gifted sen- 
timent by means of the harmony of the 
arts should ever be regarded as the most 
precious periods in the history of the hu- 
man race. Such an epoch may be brief, but 
that does not decrease its value any more 
than the transient life of a lily injures the 
quality of its perfume, the purity of its 
color, or the simple beautj' of its petals. 
We have seen how the lir»t glimmerings 
of art enlightened the mind of man; im- 
agination was its source, imitation of na- 
ture iti means. Man cannot create, he 
can only by selecting a tew of the ele- 
ments of Divine creation and uniting 
them, give birth to what may be called a 
creation of a second order. But man's im- 
agination would only produce misty 
dreams that vanish in the' light, if he 
were not endowed with an impulse which 
compels him to give expression to those 
dreams. This impulse is his reason. 
We suffer a wrong to day which we 
cannot help, for we are the victim-i of 
circumstances over which we have no 
power. The ancients in preceding us 
have deprived us of the simple and beau- 
tiful ideas which we would have possess- 
ed, had it not been that we were born too 
late We can not act, like them, accord- 
ing to an unique S3'Stem. The duties of 
a modern i)ractitioner of art are more 
difficult. We toil under prejudices be- 
longing to civilizations of the past, and 
besides these, we have now our own 
modern needs, habits, and conventionali- 
ties. If however, we can not act accord- 
ing to an original method, we should, like 
the ancients, use our faculty of reason- 
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works, it is by means of these two fac- 
ulties we should seek for the true and the 
beautiful. Eeason explains that which 
the taste makes known, and taste is but 
an involuntary and consequently an un- 
felt act of reason. To acquire taste is 
but to become familiarized with tlie true 
and the beautiful, we must learn how to 
choose it. Now to intelligently make 
this choice, we must use our faculty of 
reasoning. 
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