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fol. 74r   [fol. 73v is blank] 	'Of Truth of Space … Power of the Eye' (Pt II, Sn II, Ch V)    (3.335)  *
      
      
      
     conceals . ^  {In her}   There is always a story told - always something clear &
     defined suggested to the mind -   however little may be said to
     the eye  -   Every touch is different from ^ {all} the others  -  & we feel with
     each - that though we cannot tell what it is -  it can't be any thing
 5   There is an individual character to all - however far off or dimly
     seen -     Not so with the extreme distances of the old masters -
     They suggest nothing but distance  -    They are the same in all
     parts - monstrous even in their variety - flat <lines> parallelograms
     in Poussin & claude  -  irregular spots in Berghem - but never
10   telling a story  . never to be studied with the least hope of getting
     a thought or an imagination out of them  -   They are distances  -
     et <voila tout   -  it is all>  .
     -  the Mercury & Argus.  *and see if every fact that I have pointed
     out in nature is not carried out in it  .   Abundant - beyond
15   the power of the eye to conceive or follow -  various as <the> creation itself -
     there is yet nothing in its whole extent and mass - which does not
     suggest more than it represents  .   nor does it suggest vaguely - but
     in such a manner as proves that the conception ^ * is as complete in
     the masters mind (of each individual inch of that distance) as if it were
20   <but> an assemblage of a thousand separate pictu<e>rs - each fully worked
     out - but - clearly & fully as the idea is formed - just so much of it
     is given - & no more.  as nature would have allowed you to feel -
      

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