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OLD WELL-HEADS 
ture without effusiveness, but very effectu¬ 
ally, and so make it what it is. 
Art begins where nature leaves off; there 
is no other connection between them, though 
M. Zola, Mr. Howells and most of the 
modern French painters have said otherwise. 
Nature serves the artist solely as a point of 
departure, and the greater the departure the 
better for the artist, but in his hands the 
immobile and voiceless creatures of the 
earth are a wonderful means to a no less 
wonderful end. They become but as paint 
and canvas to the painter, as marble and 
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chisel to the statuary, as bricks and mortar 
and fine stone to the architect, and out of 
their elemental quality is produced an artistic 
whole. Then a strange thing happens, for 
the natural forces again assert themselves : 
the humble elements become the life-giving 
spirit, and the work that man has conceived 
and wrought out of the vesture of the earth 
must wait for nature herself to come and 
vitalize with the bloom of time that fuses all 
and makes it a living thing. 
Mr. Platt as a good gardner, has, of 
course, fully understood how finally essen- 
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