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...dissatisfied with the popular art productions which disfigure so many walls, in the shape of decidedly "unpleasant" females in most unadvisable attitudes, - now clinging or "wopsing" about a cross, and now simply "gawking" at vacuity, - may not at first quite sympathize with these admirable fac-similes. The above-mentioned females, currently called Faith, Charity, Hope, or Liberty, often have a surface prettiness that must not be sought in a real work of art. Rembrandt and Durer never made pretty pictures, any more than Shakespeare wrote "nice" poetry...
...contents flowed, not floated, into true cosmical harmony." We learn, further on, that "in vital matters, man and woman are equal. In functional relation to the cosmical order, each is other's superior." This appalling fact should be borne in mind, and we doubt not that our readers will shape their future courses by the light herein afforded. Some of them, however, may be inclined to question the truth of the concluding sentence: "In sufficiency, fulness, simplicity, strength, sweetness, science has no such word as 'Eve.'" If Mr. Pratt wishes to reply, our columns shall be open...