When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to kn...ow why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, c...oncentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here [in London, history] ... seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted ...strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Folk art" signifies the poetical, musical, and pictorial activities of those strata of the population which are uneducated and no...t urbanized or industrialized. It is of the essence of this art that those who keep it in being are not only passively receptive, but normally are creative participants in the artistic activities, and yet do not stand out as individuals or claim any personal authorship of the productions. "Popular art" on the other hand is to be understood as artistic or quasi-artistic production for the demand of a half-educated public, generally urban and inclined to mass-behavior. In folk art, producers and consumers are hardly distinguished, and the boundary between them is always fluid; in the case of popular art, we find on the contrary an artistically uncreative, completely passive public, and professional production of artistic goods strictly in response to the demand for them. It is indeed a striking fact that folk art, especially folk-poetry, emerges from the ranks of those who enjoy it, whereas popular songs--the street ballads and popular "hits"Mderive from professionals belonging to and spir itually dependent upon the upper classes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in ...the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in suc...cession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she t...ilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »