to a nature singularly sensitive to
beauty and abnormally sensitive to
physical emotion; but he who has
no power of feeling intensely the
power of beauty in the moment
of discovery, has missed something
of very high value in the process of
culture. One of the signs of real
culture is the power of enjoyment
which goes with fresh feeling. All
great art is full of this feeling; its
characteristic is the new interest with
which it invests the most familiar
objects; and one evidence of capacity
to receive culture from art is the
development of this feeling. The
reader who is on the way to enrich
himself by contact with books culti-
vates the power of feeling freshly and
keenly the charm of every book he
reads simply as a piece of litera-
ture. One may destroy this power

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