An Essay On the Beautiful
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But our truecountry, like that of Ulysses, is from whence we came, and whereour father lives. But where is the ship to be found by which we canaccomplish our flight? For our feet are unequal to the task since theyonly take us from one part of the earth to another. May we not eachof us say, "What ships have I, what sailors to convey, What oars to cut the long laborious way". [10] But it is in vain that we prepare horses to draw our ships to transportus to our native land. On the contrary, neglec...ting all these, asunequal to the task, and excluding them entirely from our view, having now closed the corporeal eye, [11] we must stir up andassume a purer eye within, which all men possess, but which isalone used by a few. What is it, then, this inward eye beholds?Indeed, suddenly raised to intellectual vision, it cannot perceive anobject exceeding bright. The soul must therefore be first accustomedto contemplate fair studies and then beautiful works, not such asarise from the operations of art, but such as are the offspring ofworthy men; and next to this it is necessary to view the soul, whichis the parent of this lovely race.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But our truecountry, like that of Ulysses, is from whence we came, and whereour father lives. But where is the ship to be found by which we canaccomplish our flight? For our feet are unequal to the task since theyonly take us from one part of the earth to another. May we not eachof us say, "What ships have I, what sailors to convey, What oars to cut the long laborious way". [10] But it is in vain that we prepare horses to draw our ships to transportus to our native land. On the contrary, neglec...ting all these, asunequal to the task, and excluding them entirely from our view, having now closed the corporeal eye, [11] we must stir up andassume a purer eye within, which all men possess, but which isalone used by a few. What is it, then, this inward eye beholds?Indeed, suddenly raised to intellectual vision, it cannot perceive anobject exceeding bright. The soul must therefore be first accustomedto contemplate fair studies and then beautiful works, not such asarise from the operations of art, but such as are the offspring ofworthy men; and next to this it is necessary to view the soul, whichis the parent of this lovely race.
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