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Show Art and tioodnesg. lohu Ilu-kin. Tho foundation of art Is in moral character. Of eoure art eift and amiability of dUpoll-tiou dUpoll-tiou are two dilTet'cnt tilings; a good man is not necessarily a good painter, nor does an eye Qecoftsrrlly imply an honest mind. But groat art Implies a union of both power.-, it is Hie expression, by an art Kilt of a pure soul. If the (rift is not there we can have no artat all; and if the soul and a right soul too is not there the. art is bad, however dextrous. But also remember, that the art-frlft itself is only the result of the moral character of generations, A bail woman may have a swei t roice, but that sweetness of voice eoiiies of the past morality of her race. That she can sine with it at all, she owes to tho determination of law-of law-of music by the morality of the past. Every ai t, every impulse of virtue and vice, affect in any creature face, voice, nervous power and vigor and harmony of invention at once. Perseverance In Tightness of human conduct con-duct renders after a certain number of generations gen-erations human art possible ; every sin clouds it, be it every so little a one, anil persistent vicious living and following of pleasure render, after a certain number of generations, genera-tions, all art impossible. -Men are deceived by the long suffering of the laws of nature, and mistake in a nation the reward of the virtue of its sire for the issue of its own sin-. The lime of their visitation will come, and that Inevitably, for il is always true that if the fathers have eaten sour grapes, the children's teeth are set on edge. |