in whose heart its sources are hidden,
encompasses us like a vast living
world. It is, in other words, the
totality of things which great art
gives us, -- not things in isolation
and detachment. Mr. La Farge will
pardon further quotation; he admi-
rably states this great truth when he
says that "in a work of art, executed
through the body, and appealing to
the mind through the senses, the
entire make-up of its creator addresses
the entire constitution of the man for
whom it is meant." One may go
further, and say of the greatest books
that the whole race speaks through
them to the whole man who puts
himself in a receptive mood towards
them. This totality of influences,
conditions, and history which goes to
the making of books of this order re-
ceives dramatic unity, artistic sequence,

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