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Excerpt from Whistler and Others
Masterpieces do not very often require or invite this method of treatment; and I confess that masterpieces seem to me worthiest of study, and likeliest to inspire delight. But this method - this order of Criticism - has, in some measure, caught on amongst us, because in England the contribution of an idea is ever less welcome, as it is also ever less easy, than the contribution of a fact.
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