. Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett. . riting of his poor health, the cheerless resort of granite-cutting, and the physicalpain that he endured, he says: — But what better am I than other men in this hard world, where Nature holdsdominion, and Nature alone, — where the cold wind has no mercy, the storm no feeling ;where all the elements do their will, and all the powers move at pleasure? We arcbut mites who live in spite of forces that do their spite as they are moved, as they mustdo at all times. What better am I than others, who as atoms crawl by
. Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett. . riting of his poor health, the cheerless resort of granite-cutting, and the physicalpain that he endured, he says: — But what better am I than other men in this hard world, where Nature holdsdominion, and Nature alone, — where the cold wind has no mercy, the storm no feeling ;where all the elements do their will, and all the powers move at pleasure? We arcbut mites who live in spite of forces that do their spite as they are moved, as they mustdo at all times. What better am I than others, who as atoms crawl by the forcethat is in them beneath the clouds, in sunshine and rain, heat and cold, upon thisdamp crust \ that crawl about or dig, like other mites, to protect themselves against 28 THE ART LIFE OF WILLIAM BIMMER. the inclemencies of nature ? What better 1 What am I but one of these vermin ?I believe in the existence of a spirit-world, and of immortality ; but what good doesthat do us ? Has this fact saved us any pain, clothed, fed, or cared for us, either nowor in past days 1. CHAPTER VI. EAST MILTON. 1855-1861.
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