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The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 (Fiscle Part-X)
By: Various None
We Are All Interested In Art; Yet Few Of Us Have Taken Pains To Justify
The Delight We Feel In It. No Philosophy Can Win Us Away From
Shakspeare, Plato, Angelo, Beethoven, Goethe, Phidias,--From The Masters
Of Sculpture, Painting, Music, And Metaphor. Their Truth Is Larger Than
Any Other,--Too Large To Be Stated Directly And Lodged In Systems,
Theories, Definitions, Or Formulas. They Suggest And Assure To Us What
Cannot Be Spoken. They Communicate Life, Because They Do Not Endeavor To
Measure Life.
The Delight We Feel In It. No Philosophy Can Win Us Away From
Shakspeare, Plato, Angelo, Beethoven, Goethe, Phidias,--From The Masters
Of Sculpture, Painting, Music, And Metaphor. Their Truth Is Larger Than
Any Other,--Too Large To Be Stated Directly And Lodged In Systems,
Theories, Definitions, Or Formulas. They Suggest And Assure To Us What
Cannot Be Spoken. They Communicate Life, Because They Do Not Endeavor To
Measure Life.
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