Art Out-of-Doors 
trast with its neighbors is appraised, and 
gradually we learn the laws upon which 
harmonies and discords depend, and realize 
what elements unite, and how they unite, 
to produce those different kinds of beauty 
which we call serious or picturesque, digni- 
fied or lovely, delicate or effective. And 
then we are ready to use this developed 
taste in looking at the pictures wherein man 
has assisted Nature. 
Sterling’s words are as true of this as of 
any other department of intellectual effort : 
“ Will is the root, knowledge the stem and 
leaves, and feeling the flower.” A keen, 
sensitive, catholic and yet reasoning feeling 
for works of art must be developed if we are 
to comprehend and enjoy them fully. The 
first step toward understanding the beauty 
produced by an artistic re-uniting of Nat- 
ure’s “scattered excellences,” is to gain ac- 
quaintance with these excellences ; and the 
first step toward doing this is to unseal our 
eyes by learning all that we can from books 
and pictures, from science and art. 
Few people in America, even among 
those who profess to love both Nature 
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