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fol. 46v	'Of Ideas of Power' (Pt I, Sn I, Ch III)     (3.94)
      
      
      
      
      
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     careful to distinguish between the exertion of more or less elevated
     powers - for <the> what is slightly difficult to a high power is more
     difficult & more excellent than what is excessively difficult to a 	
     low power .  Thus it is excessively difficult <to> to cut out carved 	
 5   ivory balls as the Chinese do - one within another -  but this is a difficulty
     of the fingers - the exertion of <*.*>our lower powers -   The elicitation of
     a fine thought or form is comparatively easy to a mind capable
     of doing so - but observe it is the exertion of a vast power - that
     of the mind - and of this in its most cultivated state -   This then
10   is ten thousand times the more difficult & excellent attainment.
      
      
      
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fol. 47r	'General Principles respecting Ideas of Power' (Pt I, Sn II, Ch I)     (3.119-20)
      
      
      
     th<at>us the highest ideas of power will be <thus> received from those pictures
     which attain the most perfect end. with the slightest possible means .
     not - observe - from a sketch - in which though much has been done
     with little - all has not been done -  but from the picture - in which
 5   all has been done - and yet not a touch thrown away .   The quantity
     of work in the sketch is necessarily . less in proportion to the effect obtained
     than in the picture - but yet the picture involves the greatest power -
     if - out of all the additional labour bestowed on it - not a touch has been
     lost .
10   For instance - there are few drawings of the present day that involve
     greater sensations greater sensations of power than those of Frederick Taylor.  Every
     									<touch> {dash}
     tells - and the <perfect> quantity of effect obtained is enormous - in proportion
     to the apparent means .    But the effect obtained is not complete -  Brilliant
     beautiful - and right - as a sketch - the <drawing> {work} is still far from
     <completion> {perfection}
15   {as a drawing}  On the contrary .  there are few drawings of the present day that bear
     evidence
     of more labour bestowed - or more complicated means employed, than those of
     John Lewis .  <sometimes>   The result does not at first ^ {so much} convey an
     									impression of
     inherent power. as of prolonged exertion .  But the result is complete .  Watercolour
     drawing can be carried no farther - nothing has been left unfinished or untold.
20   And on examination of the means employed - it is found & felt that not one

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