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Credit: The philosophy of living / by Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The winds, the waves, and all the finny drove. Beneath the moon in mazy morris move. Or .^schylus— Q Aloe ai9tj() KUi TaxvTTTcpoi irvoal, Horafiwv rt irT]yai, ttovtIiov ts KVfidnov AvripiOfiov ytXaerna. And someliow the mere images thus reflected in poetry strike upon the heart healthily and refreshingly, and make Our bosom's Lord sit lighter on his throne. An artist told me, that he had passed some weeks of the last summer in an excursion up the Rhine, and into Switzerland. Nothing, he said, could be more softly beautiful and romantic than the varied succes- sion of vine-clad hill and ruined tower; but the steam- boat gave him short time for sketching the gliding panorama. But Switzerland;—he looked from Vevai, at sunset, towards Meillerie; the lower part of the mountains was massed in deep blue shade, reflected upon the liquid waters of the lake: above, the light was thrown back in vivid red: while higher still, the snowy peaks were traced in transparent amber, like the sky beyond them, from which their clear and sharp- cut outline alone divided them. He tried to sketch that scene, but his eyes filled with tears.* Nature is beyond art. For Nature is divine art. * This may seem to have little to do with health; but the artist of whom I speak, a very young man, undertook this tour for the restoration of his health ; and I have no doubt, that the benefit which he has experienced, is in part attributable to the influence of the new and wholesome mental excitement on his bodily frame.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b23983553_0250.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
