The morning call., 1893-11-26

Whole that nothing occurs twice in pre-
ciseiv the same way. In life there are
oueh cbangeS that neither plant nor ami
uIa' Is exactly the same in form and feat
uIe as the parents. Like as two peas' is
ianle expression. Tor no two peas are in
oil respects alike. The phrase represents
our ordinary lack of ability to discern
minute differences. A shepherd knows
Ihat no two sheep in flock of nerinos
uulh Derlng thousands are just alike. He
can distinguish one from the other and
could give them names. To the cursory
Mongols.
People of Caucasian stock who see a
number of Chinese for the first time find it
very difficult to separate them by distinc-
lions of visage. There is family resem-
olance so overpOwering that differences of
nose, eyes and mouth are not at first glance
detected. Probably the differences are
much less marked than among the Euro
pean stock. III whose blood and language
many races are commingled, while the
Monaghan is strongly marked type,
standing very much apart.
Schools OF herring, mackerel, pilchards,
Dum berlDg billions of individuals. have
such a general resem blance that one of
the species serves TO identity all, yet even
in these humble vertebr it is rational
TO assume that minute differences exist to
constitute individuality. In the myriad
lie OF insects even there must be indvid-
uality. though it is hard to see it in a
colony OF ants or cloud of locusts. In
mite variation is the characteristic of
plant life. Similar though they appear in
general features, no two oaks or pines are
In all respects the same. No artist finds
the same tree TO copy twice, though he
often introduces the same forms in his
pictures.
The very sky is an illustrate on of variety
In nature, carried beyond prehen sion.
Live as we may in the same place all our
lives, trave! as we may frequently all
around the globe, the sky never is quite
the same. Each day has some character
of its own. 1t may be said that blue sky
IN Southern California or Egypt is always
the same in mOnotony, glare and depth.
Well. it Is seemingly to the casual OBJ
server, but just as the atmosphere fiuct-
yates in barOmetric density morning, noon
ana evening. 50 must the lumln Osity, the
hues and tones. Every artist knows that
blue and white alone will not paint blue
sky. so called, which is not blue, but
has a good deal OF red and green in it.
and yellow near the horizon. But where
ever clouds appear. the forms vary in
tinltey in detail. arrangement and tints.
although they come under classificatOnS
definite and comprehensive. Cirri, cumul-
us, sratified masses and combinations of
all. vary eXQuisitely hour by hour and day
by day. silently but incessantly, and no
phenomena in nature more impressiyey
glOrities beauty in change and contrast
than does the vaulted sky, which a very
large proportion of mankind only think of
tangibly as weather 10 be studied for their
personal convenience.
The sea is mirror of the sky, whether
in unr utfled calm or in agitation. A sail
Or's eyes can discern many phases of mood
utterly npnarppUe6 NV tho Il !,
server, and one whose gaze is accustomed
to note colors and trace their origin in the
play of light regards the wave surfaces as
so manv rejecting planes. flashing colors
from different parts Of tbs sky and from
one to the other in bewildering rapidity.
and blending lustrously in effects utterly
battling to the painters imaginative skill
Movement is necessary to reproduce
such effects successfully, and movement a
painter cannot get, for all stand still on
his canvas when gaZed at few seconds.
Complications of reflection also come by
the light being shot up from the bottom of
the sea near the land. L. shoal waters
there is always greenish tinge, but where
weeds are on the bottom the surface is
purplish. Wind also produces Infinite
changes, so that the sea is just as variable
and mysterious as the sky.
Going back TO mans microcosm. the
evolutionist may say there is peculiar at
tribute OF Greek statuary. The heredity
OF the grandeSt sculpture as undoubtedly
founded upon nature by very close study
of bone, muscle and form as whole, but
the quality of grace and beauty it pos
sesses. the repose, grandeur and expression
that give it elevation and distinction such
as no other race has been able to carry
further or even to equal come from intel
lectual gifts very sparingly distributed in
the world.
Evolution takes account of their exist
ence, but the road to them through per-
centages needs some better light than we
can yet carry. There never were such per-
feet human beings as these ancients sculp-
tured. They are ideal and as models are
inimitable. But just as they flied a type
of perfection. so they departed from the
ways of nature. which delights in doing a
thing once and passing on to some modif-
cation, some change that contrasts but still
delights US.
Had the Greeks persisted as a dominant
people they would 10 doubt have advanced
TO granGer heights in their art. But they
eulmin ated and went down under the
Roman heel, and in vain we sigh for what
mankind has lost through barbarIsm. No
race has taken their place. Will some
greater arise in the centuries TO come?
IL is working hypothesis for mankind.
TOD HILL.