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THE TESTAMENT OF BEAUTY

 BOOK III Breed
HAVING told of Selfhood, ere now I tell of breedthe younger of the two Arch-Instincts of man's nature,'twer well here to remember how these pictured steedsare Ideas construed by the abstract Intellect.Whatever abode Philosophy thinketh to build,to erect a lofty temple that may shrine her faith,crowning the unvisited holiness of the hills,or thrust her fair facade amid the noisy densof swarming Industry, to invite the sons of toil,10all altitude expanse or grandeur of building

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