text:  What can be more absurd and incongruous for instance than in a picture of "elemental war"--a sea-coast--than to put a child and its nurse in foreground the child crying because it has lost its hoop or some such thing? It is according to his truth of space that distances should have every "hair's-breadth" filled up all its "infinity " with infinities of objects but that whatever is near if figures may be "pink spots " and "four dashes of the brush