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Encourage their progress; and greater interest we shall feel in the labor of our own artists.

The love of the arts is, greatly dependent on remote associations. No man can be thoroughly imbued with it, in our times, who has not seen the wonders they have wrought in times past. For ourselves, at least, we confess we should feel comparatively little enthusiasm for [[strikethrough]] p [[/strikethrough]] sculpture and painting, if we had seen more but their modern productions. They would lose much of their poetical influence which they exact over our minds. We attribute this, not so much to their inferiority in modern times, as to their associations with the history of the past. All painting and sculpture reminds us, in some way, of those older works of which we can never think without delight. If Claude, Salvator, and Poussin were forgotten, landscape painting would be much degraded from the high place it now holds; and even his [[torn page]] [[/torn page]] histories owes much of its

   

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