Studio: international art (28.1903)

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"THE ORCHARD," HARROW : A DRAWING-ROOM WINDOW BY THE GLASS-STAINERS' COMPANY

of other material bodies which could not be nature. The distinction thus drawn between the

brought about in the state of nature. The same works of nature and those of man is universally

proposition is true of all the works of men's recognised, and it is, as I conceive, both useful

hands, from a flint implement to a cathedral or and justifiable."

chronometer, and it is because it is true that It was the unfortunate non-recognition of this

we call these things artificial, term them works distinction which led to the absurdities perpetrated

of art, or artifice, by way of distinguishing them in the latter part of the eighteenth century: that

from the products of the cosmic process working forced attempt to copy and imitate nature which

outside man, which we call natural, or works of brought about the destruction of so many beautiful

" THE ORCHARD," HARROW : THE DINING-ROOM ARNOLD MITCHELL, ARCHITECT

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