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Dallett Fuguet, 291
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291
That the Photo-Secession kept on seceding is surely what proves that it
was worth while. To me the main things that can be said may be summa-
rized in this keynote—that many have been much more alive on account of
“291.”
It has been a clearing house of ideas, compared to which the average
school or academy is a morgue. It has been no institution devoted to hollow
classic echoes and to rituals of the conventionalities.
No! “291 ” has been concerned, as were the classic Greeks themselves,
not with dogma and convention, but with growth and development.
It has been as the lyceum—or as a school of philosophs in a quiet corner
of the agora, if you prefer—presided over by an intellectual protagonist, one
who, in discussion, is a master of Socratic dialectic, one by aid of whose
mental and aesthetic midwifery many inquiring minds have brought forth
ideas that were new unto themselves, and have discovered that these new-
born ideas, although they had seemed novel and strange at first utterance,
were nevertheless truly their own thenceforward, and vital to them, and good.
And when some imposing mountain, as it were gravid, in parturition
groaned, and brought forth but a mouse, at least the frequenters of the clinic
were amused and, mayhap, enlightened.
So, to go to “291” might be to wonder, to puzzle, and to the self-satu-
rated little human atom that might be all. But to those ready to think, and
question themselves as well as what they saw—and heard—to those ready
to exchange ideas—or to change them—it meant, in fact, to live some more,
to get many a spiritual lift.
Much for which “291 ” will never get any credit, has originated or been
energized from its ramifying aerials. It has been a “live wire” of radiations
reaching farther and wider than ever can or will be acknowledged. It must
go on record as an unusual localization of a modern mind-phase, underlying
the superficial material, and as a glimpse of something real; just as now,
underlying what has been called dead matter, are conjectured the vortex
rings or imperishable energy “beyond the atom.”
Dallett Fuguet
63
That the Photo-Secession kept on seceding is surely what proves that it
was worth while. To me the main things that can be said may be summa-
rized in this keynote—that many have been much more alive on account of
“291.”
It has been a clearing house of ideas, compared to which the average
school or academy is a morgue. It has been no institution devoted to hollow
classic echoes and to rituals of the conventionalities.
No! “291 ” has been concerned, as were the classic Greeks themselves,
not with dogma and convention, but with growth and development.
It has been as the lyceum—or as a school of philosophs in a quiet corner
of the agora, if you prefer—presided over by an intellectual protagonist, one
who, in discussion, is a master of Socratic dialectic, one by aid of whose
mental and aesthetic midwifery many inquiring minds have brought forth
ideas that were new unto themselves, and have discovered that these new-
born ideas, although they had seemed novel and strange at first utterance,
were nevertheless truly their own thenceforward, and vital to them, and good.
And when some imposing mountain, as it were gravid, in parturition
groaned, and brought forth but a mouse, at least the frequenters of the clinic
were amused and, mayhap, enlightened.
So, to go to “291” might be to wonder, to puzzle, and to the self-satu-
rated little human atom that might be all. But to those ready to think, and
question themselves as well as what they saw—and heard—to those ready
to exchange ideas—or to change them—it meant, in fact, to live some more,
to get many a spiritual lift.
Much for which “291 ” will never get any credit, has originated or been
energized from its ramifying aerials. It has been a “live wire” of radiations
reaching farther and wider than ever can or will be acknowledged. It must
go on record as an unusual localization of a modern mind-phase, underlying
the superficial material, and as a glimpse of something real; just as now,
underlying what has been called dead matter, are conjectured the vortex
rings or imperishable energy “beyond the atom.”
Dallett Fuguet
63
