re the only hours that are not wasted--these hours
that absorb the soul and fill it with beauty. This is real life, and all
else is illusion, or mere endurance. Does this reverie of flowers and
waterfall and song form an ideal, a human ideal, in the mind? It does;
much the same ideal that Phidias sculptured of man and woman filled with
a godlike sense of the violet fields of Greece, beautiful beyond thought,
calm as my turtle-dove before the lurid lightning of the unknown. To be
beautiful and to be calm, without mental fear, is the ideal of nature. If
I cannot achieve it, at least I can think it.

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