Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.


Lectures on Painting: Delivered at the Royal Academy (ed. 1830)


Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.