Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. There are some curious points of resemblance in these two passages from Millet and Whitman, which we may note just here. There is that idea of the necessity, the inevitableness, the absolute direct ness of all good art-work, as they conceived it, which is at the farthest pole from the elaborate study of artificial effects and the grandiose style.