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Nevertheless, he must be right; of course he must, and I am rather
ashamed ever to have thought otherwise. Where should the light come
from? Has a man a flame inside of his head? Does his spirit manifest
itself in the semblance of flame? The moment we think of it, the
absurdity becomes evident. I am not quite sure, however, that the outer
surface of the eye may not reflect more light in some states of feeling
than in others; the state of the health, certainly, has an influence of
this kind.
I asked Powers what he thought of Michael Angelo's statue of Lorenzo de'
Medici. He allowed that its effect was very grand and mysterious; but
added that it owed this to a trick,--the effect being produced by the
arrangement of the hood, as he called it, or helmet, which throws the
upper part of the face into shadow. The niche in which it sits has, I
suppose, its part to perform in throwing a still deeper shadow. It is
very possible that Michael Angelo may have calculated upon this effect of
sombre shadow, and legitimately, I think; but it really is not worthy of
Mr.


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