Relation in art : being a suggested scheme of art criticism, with which is incorporated a sketch of a hypothetic philosophy of relation / by Vernon Blake.
- Vernon Blake
- Date:
- 1925
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Relation in art : being a suggested scheme of art criticism, with which is incorporated a sketch of a hypothetic philosophy of relation / by Vernon Blake. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![perceptible universe. But this is possibly only an example of persistent habit on my own part of separation of Time and Space.] 1 We suppose then that the reality that corresponds to our idea of the Infinite may be an universal relation, an equation or constant form of the universe, not forgetting, however, that the idea of reality is itself but an idea, perhaps inter¬ changeable with that other idea that is illusion. [We look on time as the fact itself of the development of this equation towards its manifestation, that we have compared to a curve, and which is the perceptive universe, which in turn is no more than an indefinite series of relations.]2 We are struck by the fact that this perceptible universe (or more strictly our perception of this universe, on which we are obliged to base our operations) seems to be divisible into two parts: the animate part with its attributes of thought, of instinct, of personality; and inanimate nature with its attribute of energy. The personality; being a kind of constant form endowed with a certain active forming capacity (once it exists in the perceptible or manifest universe) can direct, to a limited extent, the environing relations ; but this directing in reality is only apparent ; as it is strictly a part of the integral manifestation of the Infinite. At the same time, but for a somewhat different reason, if we consider the person¬ ality apart from■ the Infinite and as already manifest, it has not a completely free field of manifestation. It is, it is true, a form of directing influence ; but a resultant directing force is really what comes into action; that is, a resultant 1 But see the chapter entitled Philosophical Recapitulation. I enclosed this portion in square brackets in 1924 before going to press. This complication of “ fact of development now seems to me to be superfluous. 21 should now write ^Ve look on Time as necessarily coexistent with the other manifestations of the Infinite ; it exists by them and they by it, reciprocally and integrally.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2981408x_0091.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
