Meissonier, his life and his art . comes, and shows usthe poor beast of burden, riveted to the soil by ceaseless, mercilesslabour, and the sightenters into our veryhearts. It was thesame with landscape. Since, having lostour belief, we can nolonger give anv ex-pression to religiousfeeling, I would en-deavour, if I wereMinister of Fine Arts,to give an impulseto historical proposedto decorate the cloister of the Invalides in this style, but thesynthesis would have been too powerful, and none but the strongestminds would have benefited by it. Children are crammed withfacts and
Meissonier, his life and his art . comes, and shows usthe poor beast of burden, riveted to the soil by ceaseless, mercilesslabour, and the sightenters into our veryhearts. It was thesame with landscape. Since, having lostour belief, we can nolonger give anv ex-pression to religiousfeeling, I would en-deavour, if I wereMinister of Fine Arts,to give an impulseto historical proposedto decorate the cloister of the Invalides in this style, but thesynthesis would have been too powerful, and none but the strongestminds would have benefited by it. Children are crammed withfacts and dates, which mean nothing to them. They give glibanswers to chronological questions which are beyond me. ^lygardeners son astounds me with his answers to my dates fly out like pistol shots. But when it comes to his im-pressions of things, to his philosophy of events, his mind is anabsolute blank. How mens souls might be raised by a well directed impulse inthis direction ! Not a Commune in France but has a heroic deed. THE SHERIFFS. (From Perlets Etching after Meissonier.) B B 186 MEISSONIER
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