Impressions of Japanese Architecture And the Allied Arts
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It is an attribute of the inextinguishable Karma, it is to the physical [172] A Colour Print of Yeizan mind what man is to the moUusk. In it are fixed to all eternity the records of an infinite past, the seeds of an infinite future. To it are added, life by life, all that is precious and of moment in a sequence of existences. It is the source in man of all imagination, dreams, and visions; of aspirations and ex- altations; of honour, self-sacrifice, devotion: of love, poetry, and religion. We m...ay, if we like, call it the immortal soul. Therefore it is the essential element in man. Art of every kind is its sole means of expression, and while art as art may exist independently of its function as a mode of super-mundane expression and inter-com- munication, it finds, nevertheless, its highest manifestation in this unearthly and sym- bolical language. Man is a plexus of aggregated individuals, yet he has two general natures correspond- ing to the dual mind; the one that is the physical product of a single existence, the [173] Impressions of Japanese Architecture other that is the concentration of miUions thereof.
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