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fol. 29v     	'Of Ideas of Truth … Beauty and Relation' (Pt II, Sn I, Ch I)  (3.137)
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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     #24#< ^ {while the  -} < <But the> noblest edifices of art are built of
     <Note - amplify - if I like . about foundation .  -  Now it often happens that the greatest
     architects .  *| in art |  build their edifices of> such pure and fine crystal that
     the foundation may all be seen through them . and then many - whose
10   eyes are dull of sight - while they ^ {do not} see <not> what is built upon that first story - yet <go> much admire the solidity of <that> {its} brick work . and so think they understand . all that is to be understood of the matter .   While <the<re>y
     are>others standing beside them <who> are not looking not at the <w*.*> low story
     but up into the heaven at that building of crystal in which the
15   builders <has> spirit is dwelling .
      
     Amplify - if I like - about moral truth . in second end of art >
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fol. 30r        'Of Ideas of Truth … Beauty and Relation' (Pt II, Sn I, Ch I)  (3.136)
      
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     and feelings of the artist . <rather than> {as well as} the truth - they must be thoughts arising out of the knowledge of truth <in him>  . and feelings arising out
     ofthe [sic] contemplation of truth           We do not want his mind to be as a badly
     blown glass - that distorts what we see through it - but like a glass of
 5   sweet and strange colour .  that gives new tones to what we see through it  .
     and a glass of rare clearness too - that lets us see more than we could.
     ourselves - and brings nature up to us & near to us.  Nothing can
     atone for the want of truth -  not the most brilliant imagination -
     the most playful fancy - the most pure feeling - (supposing that feeling
10   could be pure & false at the same time) not the most exalted conception.
     nor the most comprehensive grasp of intellect - can make amends
     for the want of truth -  and that for two reasons - first because <in> {falsehood}
     <itself - there> is <something> {in itself .} revolting and degrading - <in its very nature> - &
     secondly - because nature is so immeasurably superior to all that the
15   human mind can conceive  .  that every departure from her is a fall
     beneath her.   so that there can be no such thing as an ornamental
     falsehood  -  all falsehood <being> must be a blot - as well ^ {as} a sin - an
     injury - as well as a deception  .
     <Now. though with respect to the second end of art>.*  it is often as impossible    .
20   to criticise as to appreciate - <there being perhaps> <because none but the highest
     mind*>  except for such as are in some degree equal in power of mind  .
     and in some respects the same in modes of mind . with those whose works they
      

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