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Excerpt from Essays Modern and Elizabethan
Stream, and the acts and words of simple men, through whom certain primitive elementary passions play 3 Why not also seek to discover the spirit in sense in its more complex and subtler incarnations - in the arts and crafts, 1n the Shaping of a vase, the lines and colours of a tapestry, the carving of a capital, the movements of a celebrant 1n the rites of religion, m a relief of Della Robbia, m a Venus of Botticelli, in the mysterious Gioconda of Lionardo? Setting aside the mere dross of circumstances in human life, why not vivify all amidst which we live and move by trans lating sense into spirit, and spirit into sense, thus rendering opaque things luminous, so that if no pure white light of truth can reach us, at least each step we tread may be impregnated with the stains and dyes of those coloured morsels of glass, so deftlyar ranged, through which such light as we are able to endure has its access to our eyes.
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