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Thursday, January 14, 1875.
It is an inexpressible relief to eyes and hands jaded with the wearing toil of mechanical    imitation to revel in the happy elysium of the memory, and realize the day dreams of invention; and again, it is often a salutary and refreshing change to turn from this exciting poetry of the art to the brave and scientific prose of the most determined imitation.
Hamilton.
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Friday, January 15, 1875.
In some essential respects a picture painted from memoranda is likely to be more valuable than one painted directly from nature. It may not be so accurately imitative, but it is likely to be more harmoniously and equably worked out, truer in effect, and better in technical execution. It will also have a higher value as an intellectual product, if the intellect of the artist be of sufficiently elevated order to make it desirable that its presence should be visible in his work.
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