Seraphita called herself a "Specialist." When Minna inquired how it was
that Seraphitus could read the souls of men, the answer was:
"I have the gift of Specialism. Specialism is an inward sight that can
penetrate all things; you will understand its full meaning only through
comparison. In the great cities of Europe works are produced by which the
human hand seeks to represent the effects of the moral nature as well as
those of the physical nature, as well as those of the ideas in marble. The
sculptor acts on the stone; he fashions it; he puts a realm of ideas into
it. There are statues which the hand of man has endowed with the faculty of
representing the whole noble side of humanity, or the evil side of it; most
men see in such marbles a human figure and nothing more; a few older men, a
little higher in the scale of being, perceive a fraction of the thoughts
expressed in the statue; but the Initiates in the secrets of art are of the
same intellect as the sculptor; they see in his work the whole universe of
thought.
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