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And I think j that we may predict that the general ! 145 ; THE ART OF BIOGRAPHY average of biographical writing will be higher than it has been, though the number of master biographers like that of master portrait-painters can never be large, hardly more than two or three in a century. The fact that the persons and events the biographer depicts were real will lend to them an additional attractive- ness. Given life, the first impulse of life — the incessant, triumphant impulse — is to manifest i...tself in individuals. \From the beginning there has never been a moment, or the fraction of a second, when the universe or the tiniest part of it, became abstract. In the world of matter not less than in the organic world of animals and plants, \ always and everywhere and forever — individ uals ! From atom to Sirius, nothing but individuals ! Even in the protean transmutation of one thing 146 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY into another, of life into death, and death into Hfe, individuahty keeps pace with each changing stage.
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