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Show th sculptor th musician th architec each to concentrate this radiance o worl o one point, an eac i hi several work to satisfy the love of beaut which stimulates him to produce. Thus i Art, a nature passed through the alembi of man & Thus in art, does nature wor through the will of a man filled with th beauty of her first works. @ The worl thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desir of beauty. Extend this element to the ut termost, an I call it an ultimate end. N reason can be asked or given why the sou seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest an profoundest sense, is one expression fo th universe Go i th all-fair Truth and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty i nature is not ultimate. It is the herald o inward and eternal beauty, & is not alon a solid and satisfactory good & It mus therefore stand as a part and notas ye the last or highest expression of the fina cause of Nature e see et e e M M e M A th DN b mh O el Sp--ee Nothing is quite beautiful alone: nothin but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggest this universal grace. The poet, the painter 3 Digital Image© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah. Al righs reserved |