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stitious Berkshire peasant of the fourteenth cen/ Lecture IIL
tury; nay, of a wandering Kurdish shepherd, or Some Hints
of a skin/and/bone oppressed Indian ryot* This, on Pattern/
I say, I am sure of; and to me the certainty is not Designing*
depressing,butinspiriting,foritbidsusremember
that the world has been noteworthy for more than
one century and one place, a fact which we are
pretty much apt to forget*
Now as to the third of the essential qualities of
our art: order* I have to say of it, that without it
neither the beauty nor the imagination could be
made visible; it is the bond of their life, and as
goodascreatesthem,if they are to be of any use to
people in general* Let us see, therefore,with what
instruments it works, how it brings together the
material and spiritual sides of the craft*
I have already said somethingof the way in which
it deals with the materials which nature gives it, &
how,as itwere,it both builds a wall against vaguer
ness and opens a door therein for imagination to
come in by* Now, this is done by means of treat/
ment which is called, as one may say technically,
the conventionalizing of nature* That is to say,
order invents certain beautiful and natural forms,
which, appealing to a reasonable & imaginative
person, will remind himnotonly of thepartof na/
ture which, to his mind at least, they represent, but
also of much that lies beyond that part* I have
already hinted at some reasons for this treatment
ofnaturalobjects*You can't bringa whole country/
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tury; nay, of a wandering Kurdish shepherd, or Some Hints
of a skin/and/bone oppressed Indian ryot* This, on Pattern/
I say, I am sure of; and to me the certainty is not Designing*
depressing,butinspiriting,foritbidsusremember
that the world has been noteworthy for more than
one century and one place, a fact which we are
pretty much apt to forget*
Now as to the third of the essential qualities of
our art: order* I have to say of it, that without it
neither the beauty nor the imagination could be
made visible; it is the bond of their life, and as
goodascreatesthem,if they are to be of any use to
people in general* Let us see, therefore,with what
instruments it works, how it brings together the
material and spiritual sides of the craft*
I have already said somethingof the way in which
it deals with the materials which nature gives it, &
how,as itwere,it both builds a wall against vaguer
ness and opens a door therein for imagination to
come in by* Now, this is done by means of treat/
ment which is called, as one may say technically,
the conventionalizing of nature* That is to say,
order invents certain beautiful and natural forms,
which, appealing to a reasonable & imaginative
person, will remind himnotonly of thepartof na/
ture which, to his mind at least, they represent, but
also of much that lies beyond that part* I have
already hinted at some reasons for this treatment
ofnaturalobjects*You can't bringa whole country/
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