I saw in an art gallery a group of well-drest people admiring
a picture of some Spanish beggars. The beggars were unkempt,
deformed, ugly, but the artist had seen beauty in the group, and
his imagination made the scene appeal strongly to the passer-by.
How many of those people, think you, would ever stop to look at
a group of beggars, not in a picture, but in life? Would they
have the imagination, apart from the artist, to feel the appeal
of real men and women in real need and see beauty and grace of
form beneath rags? And yet it is possible for all of us to be
artists and see common life transfigured with a beauty and grace
divine.--JOHN H. MELISH.
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=Beauty, Insensitiveness to=--See INSENSITIVENESS TO BEAUTY.