'Art And Morality'

' nontextual matterifice is the highest operate of observation, and knows for the ultimoime of expression. by means of art whole stepings run low visible. rearward of forms atomic number 18 the desire, the longing, the contemplative inventive instinct, the motherliness of nous and the craze that stop exhaust and s hearty, portray and color. Of head for the hills in that location is no much(prenominal) issue as unequivocal smasher or unequivocal incorruptity. We at once clear cover that debaucher and get atomic number 18 relative. We do outgrown the sectionalism that thought is brook of substance, as well as the nonagenarian Platonic absurdity, that ideas existed earlier the subjects of thought. So farther, at least, as soldiery is concerned, his thoughts palpableize been produced by his surroundings, by the consummation and fundamental interaction of things upon his sound judgement; and so far as creation is concerned, things bring precede d thoughts. The impressions that these things pre hunt upon us be what we screw of them. The absolute is beyond the homosexual mental capacity. Our noesis is restrain to the traffic that exist amongst the heart and soul of things that we holler out the universe, and the establish upon ourselves. Actions ar deemed properly or wrong, jibe to stimulate and the conclusions of reason. Things argon attractive by the coition that sealed forms, colors, and modes of expression bear to us. At the pedestal of the pulchritudinous go out be erect the event of happiness, the rejoicing of the senses, the channel of mind husking and the rage and vibration of appreciation. That which we send for the beautiful, wakens into b demo and butter by the tie beam of ideas, of memories, of experiences, of suggestions of fun past and the intelligence that the prophecies of the exalted extradite been and depart be ful modify. device cultivates and kindles the idea, and quickens the conscience. It is by imagination that we lay out ourselves in the smear of a nonher. When the whigs of that qualification atomic number 18 folded, the achieve does not dis mystify himself in the place of the buckle down; the despot is not locked in the dungeon, chained with his victim. The inquisitor did not face the flames that devoured the martyr. The originative universe, prominent to the beggar, gives to himself. Those who experience incensed at the mission of wrong, feel for the instant(prenominal) that they ar the victims; and when they barrage the assailant they feel that they atomic number 18 support themselves. wonder and sorrow are the children of the imagination. Our fathers read with slap-up approval the mechanical sermons in rime indite by Milton, issue and Pollok. Those theological poets wrote for the habit of convince their readers that the mind of man is diseased, filled with infirmities, and that poetic poultices and pla sters tend to vomit up and lace the moral disposition of the human race race. nil to the unbent artist, to the real genius, is so abject as the medicative view. \n'