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facility multiplied in aspects his art , presented he must to stud his y vie her w during features the under constan the t
changes they undergo . Sir Joshua Reynolds observes that , , life a It must is indisputabl be loyed y evident in collecting that a materials great part for of the every exercise man of ' s
new genius combination . Invention emp of , those strictly images speaking which , is have littl been e more previousl than y a of
gathered and deposited in the memory ; nothing can come combinations nothing : he who The has artist laid who up has no materials his mind can thus produce filled with no
. and ideas readiness , and his . " hand Or made in the expert words b of y practice Ruskin , works _" All with the infor ease
mation which men can , receive from the accumulated , experience of others , is of no use , but to enable them more quickl take y and the
accuratel lace of y this to personal see for themselves sight . _No . thing It will can in be no done wise well in art p except by vision" Goethe enumerates the qualities of the
. artist he differs , somewhat from Ruskin as Imlac as to did the those amount of the of poet knowled , and ge althoug required h
of the painter , he attaches quite as much importance to the study of various Natural sorts History of knowled . * "A : landscap it is not e en painter h for should him oug
to possess understand perspective , architecture ge , and the anatomy of men and animals he must also have some insiht into botany
and mineralogy , ; that he may know how to express g properly the characteristics of trees and lantsand the character of
the different sorts of mountains . p It is , not indeed necessary that he should be an accomplished mineralogist , since he and has
onl to do y needs chiefly know with in lime wh , at slate form , s and they san lie dstone , how mountains they are acted , upon by the atmosphere , and what sort of trees thrive and are
stunted on them . " for The the p study lan which of Natural I have s History uggested would for the also formation afford of to . classes ladies
great study fa of cilities landscap otherwis e painting e practicall under , y ev denied ery variety to them of , scenery for the ,
and would be of inestimable value to many female artists who , usual not possessing expensive the means in Eng necessary landmig for ht travelling not have alone the manl in the y
spirit With and reference physical way to energy architecture to imitate , I Rosa quote Bonheur the words . of the
same profound writer I have so , frequently alluded to . "It is lendour hardly of possible buildings at present designed to in imag the ine forms what of Eng may lish be and the
sp French thirteenth century surface Gothic _, and wrought out _® Conversations with Eckermann . i
Study And Teaching Of Natural History. 3...
STUDY AND TEACHING OF NATURAL HISTORY . 391
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/31/
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