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- G . WG 6YC gVy o-, The Desert, Its Fascination and Wonders To the uninitiated, the word “desert’’ gives a feeling of bareness, aban- donment and fear of the unknown. To those, however, who know it best, it has a fascination; is a never-ending source of wonder, and lias that call, the unnameable thing that grips the very soul that brings him again and again to reflect deeply on the power of his Creator and the artistry of the hand of God. Arizona is a land of constant contradictions. Its magnificent heights, sweeping upward to the very heavens. Its low and fertile valleys, stretch- ing far beyond sight, to the ends of the earth, and its broad mesas, with their deceptive velvet-like appearance, give to the eve of the veriest skeptic a feeling of amazement. The desert is, in spite of its abandoned appearance, teeming with life, both arboreal, and corporeal. Each lofty range of mountains hides the vastness of a broad valley or plateau just beyond. Every mesa holds something impressive, concrete, that can cause one to spend hours, ves, days, wondering; what it is of the desert that so grips one's soul. Artists stand speechless at the glory of a desert sunset. Vet not one has been able to catch with his brush the wondrous colors of the painting of the Almighty. Over the wastes of the desert, in mirage and mere im- agination are visions that the poet and novelist have endeavored to put into words, but have failed to do so. Storms sweep over the grey pall of the desert, bringing chaos and ruin to its death-taking wonder—and pass, leaving in its place the soft velvet glow of the cactus, grease-wood and mesquite. What is the desert? Words cannot suffice. The soul of the spectator alone can tell. Explain the beauty of Music, the thrill of Love, the secret of the Sphinx. To those to whom its beauties have become revealed it is an open boon. To the rest it remains a secret, inscrutable and forbidding. Impressive from every standpoint, the weird beauty of the desert pos- sesses a fascination not easily thrust aside. It is not, strictly speaking, an acquired taste. You like it—or you don’t. There is no middle ground. You see it as a thing of beauty, mysterious, compelling, satisfying—or as a vast waste, bristling with death: a force that lurks forever at your gate, waiting for some unguarded moment when it may creep in and spread devastation in its path.” “To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild nd heading sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware . . Page 26 GVCAeVOitoiG .GXO
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It would be unreasonable to maintain that every literary production should have a direct ethical value or that the artist is bound to aim posi- tively at producing a good moral effect through his work. Esthetic pleasure is, no doubt, a matter of indifference. The pursuit of it through the con- ception and expression of the beautiful is the proper end of the fine arts, and is itself legitimate so long as it does not undermine the moral law. But every literary production which has not a direct ethical value should have at least an indirect ethical value, if literature is to serve its highest end for the benefit of humanity. We may read, for instance, a certain poem which serves to give us intellectual pleasure without necessarily conveying any moral whatsoever. Still, inasmuch as the soul of him who reads is refined and elevated for the moment upon reading a given poem, insomuch does the poem possess an indirect moral value that helps the individual towards the realization of the higher life—the result of coming into close contact with lofty emotion and refined thought. In this way, all literature, no matter what its subject-matter, serves its true aim and makes for tbe betterment of him who profits by the influence it exerts. This is the Christian view of the matter, but that it is emphatically not the view of some of our most representative writers of the past century may readily be seen from a perusal of their works. Page 25
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