The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1903-10-25
THE HIGHER LIFE.

feeling beauty has various phasesndeed irregular
ascending scale 1t sometimes and flows out OF
caon climate and herelty lhs Its rude form, ana may
be mlesribed feeling for it rather IN the nature OF an
sensation The graceful attitudes the soft
melodies the melting expression OF the common to aborgne
and ve1urous lands, OF tins lower Order and are kln
senualn quite with cruelty eachey and utter
capacity to beyond the control of appetite.
From this seuclng depth to the snPeal helgh there are
many steps In modern times especially of differing grades has
penetrated the kitchen well the po In the domain Of the
practical the ordinary utensils the decorated bank
counters all the phases of finance, and manufacture
the poorest home the palace wherever civil
waved its wand the influence of art has frightened the
commonplace, and the general level has been raised.
perception of the spiritual element in the beautiful the
elimination of the gross the material separation of
the brilliant and yet eeing vision of the
Installations of thought and pure sentiment into the exquisite
and uplifting suggestions the deep inner meanings wrought
Almighty the globe and In the skhese
the experiences voucafed to the royal few the elect OF the
Interpreters
In its nob reaches ncfed by the morality OF the universe
On other levels it the soul degradation, which may be
polished and gtering the diamond The
whom the world outside of his home like OYSTER only
when opened wide, fills the baer definition The woman
ling wckedne impressed upon her heart by external beauty or by
the of the be unconscious of her situation but
she beahe the envenomed air of Gree The heir of the the
celestial daughter who dgured by petied obervances
branded by oenaous pactery who accepts and absor the
white flower without econcousne and who the crystal
depths of ovenes and of TRUTH in the front rank OF
humanity advancing tread towards the fields
of peace and brotherhood.
The march of mankind often obsucted and beset by evil
obstacles occasionally diverted by Illusions sometimes apparently
turned nevertheless the whole, steady and upwards and Is
kept the right track the glowing light of the beautiful Genius
has hope the pathetic surrender of great Italian While
darkness had settled about his head and despair had stopped his
the genius of national resurrection dused lines the
Italian sky and harmonious notes into uncosed hearts The
perpetual of Judge the of the human
their immediate surroundings 1t only the ceremens
of thought and feeling burst that the expands to the
portions of the mighty picture moving the frame OF time through
the silence of eternity.
These geneazaions may and specialized, in their
application islands, shining emerald in the embrace of
amidst of its early history gentleman
present Honolulu California; A Nursery for Art
That rapidly becoming The Hawaiian Islands
have visited and studied by several great painters There
perhaps of his future And all painters
scupto eccasic travellers scientists soldiers statesmen authors
including full constellation of intellectual unare who have
here ased their and their souls have testified the extra
ordinary combination of lovene and grandeur the Pacific
Antilles The feeling for beauty the breasts of people,
the hand might lead to the picturesque vcones by which
few only ennce the other hand governed and directed
education and by moral ambition, the higher life which the
spirits of civilization akn and towards which the governing
peoples and nations pressing.