Studies in the Thought World; Or, Practical Mind Art (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A GKEAT ABT MUSEUM. is mind. He is an unconscious artist, dwelling in the midst of an endless variety of mental pictures. His time is spent in photographing things around him, and in taking impressions from his thoughts and ideas. The great palaces of art, like the Louvre of Paris and the Uffizi and Pitti of Florence, contain a vast number of galleries and corridors where pictures are hung, high and low; but mental art museums are incomparably more extensive and varied. Finished productions from the hand of the most gifted artist are crude and clumsy of execution when compared with the expert delineations of the imaging faculty of the mind ? or rather the man. What a profusion of immaterial works of art, each surrounded with a carved frame of accessories, each with its high light and low light, sunshine and shadow, and all without any sensuous limitations of length, breadth, or space! Thought is the artist; and it is ever executing real but intangible masterpieces with marvellous facility, giving them all its own peculiar tone and finish, and putting its initials upon them. The ego is the owner, custodian, andsole visitor of its galleries, and is always inspecting its art treasures. These are arranged not only on walls, but are packed away in drawers and compartments for prospective use and reference. But in the twinkling of an eye they can be snatched from their seclusion, placed upon an easel, and lighted up with the sunshine of consciousness. New and original designs for the gallery are constantly being outlined, and filled in with color from the native pigments of imaginations and ideals. The bewildering array of statues in the halls of the Vatican are not comparable in number and perfection to those hosts of living figures that are ranged in the mental corridors. The...