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Show dies. All good is eternally reproductive The beauty of nature reforms itself in th mind an not for barre contemplation but for new creation All men are in some degree impressed b the face of the world. Some men even t delight. This love of beauty is Taste. Others have the same love in such excess, that not content with admiring, they seek t embody it in new forms. The creation o beauty is Art ‘The production of a work of art throws light upo the myster of humanity & work of art is an abstract or epitome o the world. It is the result or expression o nature i miniatur o Fo althoug works of nature are innumerabl different th resul o th th and al expressio o them all is similar and single. Nature i a sea of forms radically alike and eve unique. leaf, 2 sun-beam a landscape the ocean, make an analogous impressio on the mind. What is common to them all -that perfectness and harmony, is beauty Therefore the standard of beauty, is th entire circuit of natural forms,-the total ity of nature; which the Italians expresse by defining beauty «il piu nell' uno. 3 |
