The features of infancy are not commonly reproduced in the adolescent portrait for,
so capricious
are we,
that we
cannot
or
will not
conceive
the past
in any other than
its iron
memorial
aspect.
Yet the past assuredly
implies a fluid
succession
of
presents,
the development
of
an
entity
of
which
our
actual present
is a phase
only.
Our world,
again,
recognises its
acquaintance
chiefly by the
characters
of
beard
and
inches
and is,
for the most part,
estranged
from those of its
members
who seek
through
some
art,
by
some
process
of the
mind
as yet
untabulated,
to
liberate
from the
personalised lumps
of
matter
that which is
their
individual
rhythm,
the first
or
formal
relation
of their
parts.
But for such
as
these
a
portrait
is not
an
identificative
paper
but
rather
the
curve
of
an
e
m
o
t
i
o
n
.
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