There are minor currents, too, little streams of rebellion that flow contrary to the general direction. The superesthetic and the superintellectual, equally are protests against the trend toward naturalism. The one responds to what there is in us of world-weariness, of a jaded epicureanism that needs the subtlest stimulants to its imagination; the other would emphasise the quality by which, it assumes, we are differentiated from, and superior to, the natural world. Disregarding the Universal Intellect which regulates the law of natural growth and of natural habits, it would force the little unit of intellect into premature development, into lifelong estrangement from the wholesomeness of nature. For facts it would substitute names; words, words and continually words, until they take the place of knowledge, of ideas and of all religious, moral and esthetic consciousness. In American art there is scarcely any trace of the superesthetic; but more than a little of the superintellectual, a phase and product of our infatuation for words, which binds the imagination with wrappings of borrowed thought and checks the free flight of original ideas. For the end of art is not to teach, but to make us feel; to refine and elevate the operation of the senses, helping us through visible, tangible and audible beauty to catch at something of the mysterious infinitude of beauty. Even as man’s intellect reaches ever wider and further until knowledge is merged in speculation; so by the promptings of the senses we reach from appreciation of material things to that detachment of feeling which exists in the ideal. INDEX Adams, Herbert, 99-115, 184, 193 Ball, Thomas, vi, 56 Barnard, George Grey, 21-36 Barnhorn, Clement J., 193, et seq. Bartholomé, Albert, 6, 7 Bartlett, Paul W., 89-95, 184 Barye, Antoine Louis, 158 Bauer, Theodore, 223, et seq. Bissell, George E., 184 Bitter, Karl, 204, 205 Borglum, Gutzon, 153, 154, 226 Borglum, Solon Hannibal, 149-162 Boston Public Library, 81, 83 Boyle, John J., 184, 227, et seq. Brenner, Victor David, 165-171 Brooks, Richard E., 214 Brown, Henry Kirke, vi, 43, 203 Bush-Brown, H. K., 202, 203 Calverly, Charles, 213 Canfield, Birtley, 214 Canova, v, 56 Carpeaux, Jean Baptiste, 134 Casey, Edward Pearce, 188 Cavelier, Jules Pierre, 28 Centennial Exhibition, v, viii, 136 Chicago World’s Fair, 61, 65, 75, 84, 197, 203, 222, 224 Coloring Sculpture, 102, et seq. Crawford, Thomas, vi Dallin, Cyrus E., 184, 226 Donoghue, John, 222 Dubois, Paul, 6, 7, 15 Elwell, F. Edwin, 219, et seq. Falguière, Jean Alexandre Joseph, 75, 100, 134 Flanagan, John, 185 Frémiet, Emmanuel, 90, 157 French, Daniel Chester, 55-70, 193 Grafly, Charles, 217, et seq., 222 Greenough, Horatio, 4 Harvey, Eli, 202 Jouffroy, François, 134 Kemeys, Edward, 197 Kitson, Alice Ruggles, 213 Kitson, Henry H., 213 Konti, Isidore, 205, et seq. Library of Congress, 74, 83, 90, 113, 128, 142, 176, et seq., 223