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and discouragement from the technical side; for with a spirit so uplifted, the cold fact of craftsmen's troubles will come hard.  I have found a book I like very much.  It is called Essays "Speculative & Suggestive" by J. A. Symonds.  "No human being can make or mould a beautiful form without incorporating in that form some portion of the human mind..".

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In speaking of the "essential element of thought or feeling in a work of Art" he says "it radiated through the form, as lamplight through an alabaster vase".  "For sculptor and for painter, the danger is lest he should think that alabaster vase his final task."

Some of the uses which may be made of art as suggested by J. A. S. "to inculcate religion," "to stimulate licentiousness", "to exhibit the strength of heroes, "the constancy of martyrs, to reveal the seductions of the senses", "the poignant fascination of blood thirsty passion."