the conclusion that these observances
are the practice of that catholic church
which includes the pious-minded of
all creeds and rituals; a group of radi-
cal reformers, by passionate advocacy
of a single reform, come to believe
that there have been no reformers
before them, and that none will be
needed after them; a band of fresh
and audacious young practitioners of
any of the arts, by dint of insistence
upon a certain manner, rapidly gene-
rate the conviction that art has no
other manner.

Society is full of provincialism in
art, politics, religion, and economics;
and the essence of this provincialism is
always the same, -- the substitution of
a part for the whole. Larger knowl-
edge of the world and of history
would make it perfectly clear that
there has always been not only a

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