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Excerpt from University of New-York, Medical Department: Introductory Lecture to the Course of Chemistry
External nature presents itself to different men under different forms. The landscapes around us impress us with their beauties in different ways; the rock, or the valley, the ?owing of a river, or the shadows of clouds stealing over the corn-fields. The human heart is at one time awakened by the strains of music, or gladdened by the setting of the sun; and those strains linger with us long after the harp which gave them has ceased to vibrate, and the glories of those skies are before us, though day may have gone down. These sensa tions have become a part of us, they weave themselves into our being, they cast a colouring over all we do, they give a turn to all we say. Affected thus by the things around us, we take pleasure in regarding them under different conditions, and express ourselves about them in different words. It is thus that artists present their works under various points of View; the broad and bold features of the pictures of one, are cast into the dim background of another, and new objects are brought forth with prominence.
We measure the skill of the statuary, the painter, the poet, and the orator, by the power with which they thus group together the elements they bring before us, and cast their forms or ideas in strongly marked characters. Scenes that pass before their mental vision, affect each one differently, and from this arise the many modes they employ, to fix our attention or to cum mand our applause.
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