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Nature and Art.
We have seen how impersonal is the form which Far Eastern thought assumes when it crystallizes into words.

Let us turn now to a consideration of the thoughts themselves before they are thus stereotyped for transmission to others, and scan them as they find expression unconsciously in the man's doings, or seek it consciously in his deeds.
To the Far Oriental there is one subject which so permeates and pervades his whole being as to be to him, not so much a conscious matter of thought as an unconscious mode of thinking.

For it is a thing which shapes all his thoughts instead of constituting the substance of one particular set of them.

That subject is art.