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So the things and scenes most closely interwoven with the the progress of life than to those which [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] belong only to a separated, idle-class of rich people. Hence the portions of towns and villages where the laboring people exist, where original nature mingles with the most typical and essential work of man in "improving" the earth for housings and crops, or moving goods by water and rail, are to the landscape-temperament of interest: but as [[underline]] color themes [[/underline]] not as realistic or illustrable scenes.
This [[underline]] scene in Patterson [[/underline]] with crude brick factories a very dull foreground, ugly heaps of timbers and all misplaced at the foot of an inviting hill would be utterly uninteresting artistically, on a photograf, probably on a pen drawing or [[insert]] nearly [[/insert]] monochrome or grey-colored [[strikethrough]] painting [[/strikethrough]] picture. The details by which the ugly foreground of ashes, weeds, stables, the hot, ugly factories of monotonous brickwork, rgular windows, tanks, chimneys, skylights are specialized as such, are of interest or

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