“the things that are Cæsar's;” the other sees “Helen's [25]
beauty in a brow of Egypt.”
Pictures are portions of one's ideal, but this ideal is
not one's personality. Looking behind the veil, he that
perceives a semblance between the thinker and his thought
on canvas, blames him not. [30]
Because my ideal of an angel is a woman without
feathers on her wings,—is it less artistic or less natu-
ral? Pictures which present disordered phases of ma- [1]
terial conceptions and personality blind with animality,