will tell me if I have seenrightly. It seems to me that what hasespecially interested you in humanity is thatstrange uneasiness of the soul bound to thebody. In all your statues there is the same im-pulse of the spirit towards the ideal, in spiteof the weight and the cowardice of the flesh. In your… … 52. BALZAC. By A. Rodin. MYSTERY IN ART hesitant body-to its martyrdom, while it seemsto cry the words, Thou tremblest, vile flesh ! In your Penseur, meditation, in its terribleeffort to embrace the absolute, contracts theathletic body, bends it, crushes it. In yourBaiser, the bodies tremble as…
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