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emotionwhich is in itself inexpressiblein terms of intellect and logic.
The mystic objectifies a rich feeling in the pit of the stomach into a
cosmology. For other mystics that cosmology is a symbol of the rich
feeling. For the unreligious it is a symbol of nothingand so appears
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Mr. Scogan
checked himself. "So much for the religious emotion. As for the
aesthetic--I was at even greater pains to cultivate that. I have looked at
all the right works of art in every part of Europe. There was a time when
I venture to believeI knew more about Taddeo da Poggibonsimore about
the cryptic Amico di Taddeoeven than Henry does. To-dayI am happy
to sayI have forgotten most of the knowledge I then so laboriously
acquired; but without vanity I can assert that it was prodigious. I don't
pretendof courseto know anything about nigger sculpture or the later
seventeenth century in Italy; but about all the periods that were
fashionable before 1900 I amor wasomniscient. YesI repeat it
omniscient. But did that fact make me any more appreciative of art in
general? It did not. Confronted by a pictureof which I could tell you
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