ductive the man, the wider his contact
with and absorption of the life of his
time. For the artist stands nearest,
not farthest from his contemporaries.
He is not, however, a mere medium
in their hands, not a mere secretary
or recorder of their ideas and feelings.
He is separated from them in the
clearness of his vision of the signifi-
cance of their activities, the ends
towards which they are moving, the
ideas which they are working out;
but, in the exact degree of his great-
ness, he is one with them in sympa-
thy, experience, and comprehension.
They live for him, and he lives with
them; they work out ideas in the
logic of free life, and he clarifies, inter-
prets, and illustrates those ideas.
The world is not saved _by_ the rem-
nant, as Matthew Arnold held; it is
saved _through_ the remnant. The

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