There remain, however, two points to be noticed before I can hope that this
conclusion will be frankly accepted by the reader. If it be the moral part of us to which beauty addresses itself,art oil paintings, how does it happen, it will be
asked, that it is ever found in the works of impious men, and how is it possible
for such to desire or conceive it?
On the other hand, how does it happen that men in high state of moral culture
are often insensible to the influence of material beauty, and insist feebly upon
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These two objections I shall endeavor briefly to answer, not that they can be
satisfactorily treated without that detailed examination of the whole body of
great works of art, on which I purpose to enter in the following volume. For the
right determination of these two questions is indeed the whole end and aim of my
labor,abstract oil painting, (and if it could be here accomplished, I should bestow no effort
farther,) namely, the proving that no supreme power of art can be attained by
impious men; and that the neglect of art, as an interpreter of divine things,
has been of evil consequence to the Christian world.
At present, however, I would only meet such objections as must immediately
arise in the reader's mind. cheap oil paintings on canvas
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