profundities of revelation is significant of the coming of an attitude totally different from that which previously prevailed. Beauty is not subject to man’s command, and nothing is freer, less subject to hard and fast rules than the balance between the favorable historical circumstances in which great art appears and the freedom of divine grace. The latter is not there for the purpose of compensating the lack of the former. Nonetheless the prayer of the artist for the right spirit and the right
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