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ćS Qზ8ijaš 1 "We can no more form any idea of Beauty superior to Nattire than we can form an idea of a sixth sense, or ahy other excellence, out of the limits of the human mind. Nothing can be so unphilosophical as a supposition that we can form any idea of Beauty or excellence out of or beyond Nature, which is, and must be, the fountain-head from whence all our ideas must be derived." Sir Joshua Reynolds. “In every kind of composition he affirms that the art of composing well is the art of varying well; and he says that St. Paul's Cathedral is one of the noblest instances of the application of every principle he has mentioned. In this monumental work of Wren we find variety without Confusion, simplicity without nakedness, richness without tawdriness, distinctness without hardness, and quantity without excess.' Aogarth in Knight's Ahilosophy of the Aeautiful. “The Fine Arts are sciences applied to the purposes of pleasure through the medium of the imagination. They are poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture. In reference to the mixed sciehces, and some of the applied sciences the mental initiative comes from without. In the Fine Arts, the mental initiative must necessarily proceed from within.' S. T. Coleridge. “He maintains that the figures in Raphael's cartoons, and hisgroups in the Vatican, the work of Da Vicini and Cbrreggio, and every great master in Art are all careful copies from Nature. His essay is an elaborate attempt to .pίονe this thesis. Success in Art is a return to Nature,