—art historian Ellen Kosmer, explaining the aesthetic ideal of the naturalistic "informal" or "picturesque" gardening style of the 18th and early 19th century, in a lecture on "Art in the Garden" at the Amherst Club, 9 February
"sort of what like God could do if he had the time"
"In fiction, the principles are given, to find
the facts: in history, the facts are given,
to find the principles; and the writer
who does not explain the phenomena
as well as state them performs
only one half of his office."
Thomas Babington Macaulay,
"History," Edinburgh Review, 1828
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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