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Title: A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Dunlap, William, 1766-1839 Bayley, Frank W. (Frank William), 1863-1932 Goodspeed, Charles E. (Charles Eliot), 1867-1950
Subjects: Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, C. E. Goodspeed & co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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uperstition, always the enemy ofreason, is often the parent and the nurse of the fine arts. Itwould be more just to say that in the progress of man frombarbarism to civilization, ignorance engenders superstition,and artful men enlist in her cause for a time those arts, whichby diffusing knowledge will ultimately overthrow her. Scienceand literature become the allies of the fine arts, and in theages to come, even more than in the present, art will be thefriend and coadjutor of reason, the propagator of truth, andthe support of religion. Public and private buildings willemploy the architect, the sculptor, and the painter; while thevolumes which increasing knowledge produces will requiredecorations and illustration from the designer and engraver.In works on natural history we see the incalculable advantageof the arts of design to convey those images which words can-not present to the mind. For this reason I view the works ofMr. Audubon with a partial eye; but my feelings in his favor 202
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JOHN JAMES AUDUBON1780-1851 From an engraving by J. Sartain after the painting by F. Cruikshanks AUDUBON AND BONAPARTE 203 have been damped by the exaggerated praises inserted in ourpublic journals, and by the style of his biography, publishedand written by himself. However, it is my duty from suchsources as are presented to me, to give a memoir of the artist;and those sources are verbal communications with AlexanderLawson, the friend of Wilson, and jealous of, perhaps, eveninimical to, Audubon, and Mr. Audubons own account ofhimself, which may be considered as that of a friend. I will first give the testimony and narrative of Lawson, whois undoubtedly biased against the rival of his friend Wilson,but whose character places him above doubt as to the facts hestates. Lawsons account of his first knowledge of Audubon is asfollows: On a certain occasion, a well-known Quaker gentle-man of Philadelphia, told his friend Lawson that a wonderfulman had arrived in the city, from the backwoods (

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