In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.