differences, as well as manners, laws,
religions, and national ideals. If you
recall the more general physical im-
pression of a gallery of Flemish
paintings and of a gallery of Italian
masters, you will have carried off in
yourself two distinct impressions re-
ceived during their lives by the men
of these two races. The fact that they
used their eyes more or less is only a
small factor in this enormous aggre-
gation of influences received by them
and transmitted to us."

From this point of view the inex-
haustible significance of a great work
of art becomes clear, both as regards
its definite revelation of racial and
individual truth, and as regards its
educational or culture quality and
value. Ideas are presented not in
isolation and detachment, but in their
totality of origin and relationship;

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