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The Mystic Will

CHAPTER IX
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This is, however, a very small or inferior illustration; there are far more remarkable and deeply spiritual or aesthetically-suggestive subjects than this, and that in abundance, which Art has indeed so reproduced as to amaze the many who have only had snatches of such observation themselves.
But the magicians, SHELLEY, or KEATS, or WORDSWORTH, only convey _partial_ echoes of certain subjects, or of their specialties.

It is indeed beautiful to feel what Art can do, but the original is worth far more.

And if the reader would be such a magician, let him give his heart and will to taking an interest in all that is beautiful, good and true--or honest.

For that it really can be done in all fullness is true beyond a dream of doubt.

By the ordinary methods of learning one may indeed acquire an exact, mechanically drawn picture, which we modify with what beauty chance bestows.


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