"The thought that makes the work
of art," says Mr. John La Farge in a
discussion of the art of painting of
singular insight and intelligence, "the
thought which in its highest expres-
sion we call genius, is not reflection
or reflective thought. The thought
which analyses has the same defi-
ciencies as our eyes. It can fix only
one point at a time. It is necessary
for it to examine each element of con-
sideration, and unite it to others, to
make a whole. But the _logic_of_free_
_life,_which_is_the_logic_of_art,_ is like
that logic of one using the eye, in
which we make most wonderful com-
binations of momentary adaptation, by
co-ordinating innumerable memories,
by rejecting those that are useless or
antagonistic; and all without being
aware of it, so that those especially
who most use the eye, as, for instance,

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