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INDIVIDUALISM IN ART. 
names of Continental artists. His pictures have the same 
psychological effect as his poems, producing a species of subdued 
delight which is only effected in this high degree by his works, 
but which is occasionally approached when some of the pictures 
of Mr. Holman Hunt, Mr. Burne Jones, or Mr. Watts, or some 
of the poems of Shelley, Keats, or Coleridge, are the subjects 
of contemplation. There are other great poet-painters, too, 
who have influenced the thought of the century very strongly— 
Sir Noel Baton, Mr. W. Bell Scott, and others. In the region 
of prose literature many great names immediately suggest 
themselves—Goethe, Carlyle, George Eliot, and Mr. Buskin ; 
in science—Dr. Huxley, Prof. Tyndall, and Sir Bichard Owen ; 
in philosophy—John Stuart Mill, Darwin, and Mr. Spencer; 
in music—Wagner and Gounod: all these have impressed 
their individuality upon their time with a stamp that can 
never be obliterated. These are the great individualists who 
have made their respective arts so glorious and so famous. 
What has been done in the past for Art by individualism will, 
as civilization and its accompanying culture progresses, 
develop into something even greater and grander. It is only 
to individualism that we can look with certainty for progress 
and development: if collectivism steps in and usurps its place, 
then the progress of Art, as well as everything else, must 
necessarily end. 
We have, then, briefly traced the origin and development 
of the Arts. We have found that progression consists in the 
development of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous alike 
in Art and in life. We have seen that the highest Art is 
co-existent with the greatest display of individualism, and 
that all great efforts exerted in order to alter some current 
mode of thought and opinion were the efforts of the individu¬ 
alism which displays itself wherever genius is present. We 
have also seen that where collectivism is the prevailing 
feeling true high Art cannot exist, be produced, or be 
enjoyed. As Art-work is produced by the individual, so does 
it administer to the individual. It affords him scope for 
thought and feeling, it affords him delight and pleasure. 
In this our day, when to be great all Art must possess the 
scientific spirit, we must look to it that Science shall possess 
the artistic spirit too ; that it shall not run into materialism or 
any other of the thousand pitfalls which beset its path of 
progress. There must be a glorious union of Science and 
Art. “ When Science is learned in love, and its powers are 
wielded by love,” and the whole of Science is artistic, and the 
whole of Art scientific, then the prophet of the movement 
will arise, and lead his army of workers, and the triumph of 
the teachings of the Synthetic Philosophy will be complete. 
