A Painters Camp In The Highlands And Thoughts About Art Vol 2 Of 2 Classic Reprint

Download or read book A Painter's Camp in the Highlands, and Thoughts About Art, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Philip Gilbert Hamerton and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Painter's Camp in the Highlands, and Thoughts About Art, Vol. 2 of 2 I think it is Emerson who has said somewhere that no truths are so valuable as those we have come at in endeavouring to satisfy ourselves. The subject of the present chapter has, of course, possessed a personal interest for me, and its conclusions have cost me more thought and care than are usually bestowed on the getting up of a subject merely for literary treatment. If I have sufficient confidence iji these conclusions to act upon them it ought to be evident that, whether sound or not, they are at least sincere. The use of literature cannot merely be to make authors famous and publishers rich. The important service it yields to mankind is the perpetual registering of the experience of the race. Without literature it is inconceivable that any race of men could reach a degree of culture comparable to ours, because, without a literature to record it, the experience of dead generations could never be fully available for the living one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.