In the great cities of Europe where works are produced by which the human Hand seeks to represent the effects of the moral nature was well as those of the physical nature, there are glorious men who express ideas in marble.

The sculptor acts on the stone; he fashions it; he puts a realm of ideas into it.

There are statues which the hand of man has endowed with the faculty of representing the noble side of humanity, or the whole evil side; most men see in such marbles a human figure and nothing more; a few other men, a little higher in the scale of being, perceive a fraction of the thoughts expressed in the statue; but the Initiates in the secrets of art are of the same intellect as the sculptor; they see in his work the whole universe of his thought.

Such persons are in themselves the principles of art; they bear within them a mirror which reflects nature in her slightest manifestations.

Well! so it is with me; I have within me a mirror before which the moral nature, with its causes and effects, appears and is reflected.