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fol. 76r   [fol. 75v is blank] 	'Of Truth of Space … Power of the Eye' (Pt II, Sn II, Ch V)    (3.336-37)  *
      
      
      
      
     this distance - he would {could &} only have given the ^ {shadows of the}
     buttresses & the light & dark
     sides of the two towers -  and distinct dots for windows .  or if more ignorant
     and more ambitious -  he had with infinite labour - endeavoured to make
     out some of the detail - it would have been sheer broad caricature of
 5    	the delicacy, of that of the building - <for there would have been distinct 
     lines - representative> and would have been felt at once to be false -
     offensive - & ridiculous  .   The greatest & most successful of old painters
     would therefore only have given the mass of the building - the effect
     of a colossal parish church -  without one line of carving on its white
10   washed sides .    This would not have been truth - nor would it - nor
     ought it - ever to have had the effect ^ {or charm} of truth - <or the charm of it> .
     on the {a} mind .  Turner alone - of all who ever lived - could & would
     have given the truth -    On his canvass - if you looked for individual
     lines - you would have seen - what in Nature you see - her[?] inextricable
15   mass of confusion -     Take the general <effect> {view} - as you would take it
     from
     the landscape - & you see - no meagre square tower with four turrets
     & a hole in it - but the rich - graceful - & complicated symmetry of
     Truth .
     So much for distance -   But we have yet to prove our second
20   position - that there is this same kind of confused & mysterious
     distance in the objects nearest to the eye
     Go and stand in the Piazza di St Marco at Venice  -  as close to the
      
      

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