ranges through every other field among all the fields of life. And is there any true society or life without art, as Taine said?...

And here are pictures by the young artist (Cremona), whose spirit could not endure that any barrier should stand between it and artistic expres-sion; so he took the color between his fingers and began painting with it his canvases, full of delicate feeling. But the poisons [...] of the deadly pigments seeped into his body and destroyed him.

This artist gave his whole life to singing for us the splendor of love and the greatness of love. Among his canvases: The Lovers, or The Arbor Tree; The Cousins; and others.

And here there loomed before us, in all its grandeur and might, that canvas which greets all who enter as if it were a piece of life itself, its size reaching fifteen meters, from the brush of the artist (Michetti). This canvas presents a biting crit-ical picture of certain pagan traditions that had crept into Christianity. His conscious soul, his limpid creed, and his pure, sound faith refused to keep silent about such errors, and he set about portraying them in a powerful canvas, in the frank style of a critic, thereby creating a social revolution in the liberation of thought. It left the best of impressions on his society, which valued his work both on the intellectual side and on the artistic — for its style was so very bold that certain pedants and conceited men rose up in uproar against it and attacked him. He answered them with a small canvas: (The Shepherdess and Her Sheep), which was exhibited beside the large one so that the difference might be seen.

This method was a practical reply that silenced the oppo-nents, slapped their ignorance, and laid bare their conceit, by the power, precision, and clas-sicism embodied in it — things they were incapable of match-ing. And so he won the battle, thanks to the nation's artistic maturity and awareness and its love of goodness, progress, and truth. The government bought this singular canvas

The Lovers, or The Arbor Tree, by the artist "Cremona"

and exhibited it in its greatest museums, and his work was a new artistic conquest.

And let us say a word about that artist who found in the animal a world all

beauty and peace... and devoted his art and his life to working for it, producing for us a collection of animals full of delight, gentleness, and wisdom. Nor is this strange: how many great sages and men of letters have consecrated their literature and their learning to the speech of animals — and thereby taught that... speaking... animal, this human child of Adam!...

And here is the voice of the museum guard calling to the vis-itors, announcing that time is up. So I left this paradise in spite of myself... but I shall return to it...

That night I took to my bed believing myself the happiest of men. Of course, things in this life are relative... Some may see happiness in counting coins and sleeping on them... some in sitting at a green table... or over yellow piasters... Some see it in pouncing upon a table laden with every sort of delicious dish... and some see it in drinking wine and sitting with a beauty — and so on to the end of the tale of this world's many kinds of pleasure. But I hold that intellectual pleasure is the immortal one, and that everything short of it, however violent and extravagant it may grow, remains within the circle of this narrow, perish-ing body.

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