Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume40 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 40
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive era social gospel
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ks of Fra An-gelico, who painted onIiis knees, and the earlypictures of Raphael be-fore he was spoiled byadulation and lost hisvision. The first sacri-ficed the highest in themto at least a lower, andtheir fame, such as it is,was bought with a partof their soul. The fameof the others is as theafterglow of their soulsachievement—the glorythat lingers in the heav-ens when the sun is set.That evening I readBrownings analysis ofAndrea Del Sarto, hewhom men called thefaultless painter, who yet fell sofar short of his highest—that place sideby side with Agnolo—a genius whohad his vision but not the courage ofhis vision. Genius is not given to many,but to each man is vouchsafed a vision.The star that of old led the wise men,still shines for souls to-day, and to everyman that comes into the world there isgiven an inner light by which he maydiscern his highest. Stars differ fromeach other in glory and mountains inheight, and one mans highest is higherChan anothers, but the secret of each
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MONUMENT OF DOGE MICHELE MOROSINI (d. 1382).Most ornate of the Gothic monuments. mans highest is between himself andGod. To fall short of that highest is tomake the great refusal, the only possiblefailure. On my first visit to Venice I wouldhave disdained to spend a whole morningon one church and a few stray pictures,as it had never occurred to me up to thattime to distinguish between the relativevalues of the comparatively little onemight see with some intelligent apprecia-tion, and the immense quantity one mightsee in a slipshod way. On my return home from that trip, the Digitized by VjOOQLC 532 A Revised Version of Venice. discovery that a friend of mine who hadnever been abroad had yet a much moreintimate knowledge of Italy than I couldboast, made me realize how much betterit may be, after all, to be able to appre-ciate beautiful things and not have them,than to have them and not be able toappreciate them, and it gradually beganto dawn on me that the same truth appliesto Italy in

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