Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Walks People in Tuscany
While the picture galleries and museums in Italy contain some of the most beautiful works of art and the most interesting records of antiquity in the world, apart from the mere pleasure they afford, the chief interest in them lies in the manner in which they illustrate the history of the past so that they may illuminate the history of the present. The study of any one subject, unless it be made with a due sense of its proportionate value in the entire and complex scheme of things, has the effect of producing an, artisan rather than an artist, or a politician rather than a statesman. Special pleading tends towards a narrowing of the intellect.
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