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To go to it is to return to the cool spring on the mountainside where the ferns hang over the dripping rocks, and the dark pool holds but a cupful of the purest water on earth. But - we do not despise the mighty river, we cannot deny the majesty of the ocean, even the blundering uncertain brook has its charm, and the morning mists and clouds above proclaim that beauty dwells not solely in the infancy of things. A quickened intelligence destroys no good thing. 

If you like a picture, examine in your own mind why you like it, and if the reason be an impersonal one. x It must be as impersonal as was the appreciation of the one man in seven who sas the beauties of the hillside, x if you would enter into the work and have it speak to you, gradually you will come to judge it for its form and color, its harmonies and movement, its