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While Art Unites, Beauty Transcends

October 10, 2019August 30, 2020 Willis Renuart 0 Comments Leo Tolstoy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendence

The failure to distinguish between art and beauty has caused much confusion. Art and beauty have two different but overlapping trajectories–one toward union and the other toward transcendent reality.

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