numerous as the objects upon which
the mind can fasten and about which
the imagination can play. But while
its forms and products are almost
without number, this magnificent
growth has, in the last analysis, a
single root, and in these brief chapters
the endeavour has been made, very
inadequately, to bring the mind to
this deep and hidden unity of life
and art. Information, instruction,
delight, flow in a thousand rivulets
from as many books, but there is a
spring of life which feeds all these
separate streams. From that unseen
source flows the vitality which has
given power and freshness to a host
of noble works; from that source
vitality also flows into every mind
open to its incoming. A rich intel-
lectual life is characterised not so much
by profusion of ideas as by the appli-

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