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A beautiful work must be a system, (though its systematic character to be felt, must not be understood) and the beauty of any part must consist in its harmony with the whole system; and so, though a mere defect may be small, a positively offensive part must be so by breaking the system. Nature as a work of art, will reveal new beauties. As such, its leading idea will be seen to be that of growth. Thus when

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