Meissonier, his life and his art . FOR Les Contes Rciiwis. Some millionaireshave immense grant it. But even ifthey possess every pos-sible talent and quality,they are swallowed upby their money, just as the sunlight swallows up the glimmer of a candle. . They mayweigh heavily, nay, enormously, in human affairs, but they count for nothing in purelyintellectual matters. When the Chal-deans, camping outunder the stars, sawthe sun rise each morn-ing and set each night,at different sides of thesky, they must havewondered whither itwas going. . My religion is to bow humbly befo
Meissonier, his life and his art . FOR Les Contes Rciiwis. Some millionaireshave immense grant it. But even ifthey possess every pos-sible talent and quality,they are swallowed upby their money, just as the sunlight swallows up the glimmer of a candle. . They mayweigh heavily, nay, enormously, in human affairs, but they count for nothing in purelyintellectual matters. When the Chal-deans, camping outunder the stars, sawthe sun rise each morn-ing and set each night,at different sides of thesky, they must havewondered whither itwas going. . My religion is to bow humbly before the mysterious will of Providence. That Will be done!. ILLUSTRATION FOR Lgs Conies Keinois. 138 MEISSONIER rhc epoch of the creator has never been that of the new forms were no longer produced, men began to collect theold, to burrow into the arcana of the past .... When we see what the Talisman and the Venoeur have dredcjedfrom the depths of the sea, marvels never destined to behold the light,strange beasts like flowers dragged from their mysterious obscurity, we
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