La Farge, John, 1835-1910 · New York, The Century co. · leaf 176
bedropped. In the stations ofour own progress in art, theadvance has at every stageinvolved some deficiency, orfailure, or weakening on an-other side. This is the onlyexplanation I can make forpainting in the extreme Eastnot having taken up portrai-ture — that is to say, not hav-ing triumphed in… … INSCRIPTION FROM HO-RIU-JI. then sculpture is to a certain extent easier and in a cer-tain way inferior, because it gives a sort of duplicate ofthe object, not a relation of it to other things. So that the Japanese have not come to the work fromthe model, which has at so many periods and so…
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