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I resigned from the church at the same ageowing to a difficulty with the clergy over Bob Ingersoll having a right to his opinion whether we agreed with it or not. 

Have studied Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, some German and Italian, also farming, and how to make money. Succeeded with most of them and seem to have forgotten them all successfully with the interest that grew with painting. 

That has been the main interest to the point that all ideas became young growing facts, and it is the growing of [[strikethrough]] facts [[/strikethrough]] ideas into [[strikethrough]] ideas [[/strikethrough]] facts that is the sort of agriculture that interests me most. One so seldom gets a good breeder idea. Two or three in a life time would be enormous. 

That goes toward what is meant by modern painting. 

It is the human laboratory making research into life and all human thought and emotion to find young healthy plants that can stand the test of growing among the things that are lasting through the ages. 

The making of objects "That please the eye" will always continue as will talent. The real breeder one is genius, the great sire. A great sire can make a whole section of the country fruitful and productive and the same is true of ideas. 

To save the finest and breed from it is better than saving all. That is what "Modern" in the real sense means. 
It is the elimination of the accumulation that gathers in attics. 
The critics who do not realize this and look at paintings for their looks in terms of the past have no sense of responsibility