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Article: THE IMPROVED MAN.(Andrew Jackson Downing)
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- Harper's Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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"Il buono e il bello."
--Motto engraved above the door of Andrew Jackson Downing's home
IN 1850, ANDREW JACKSON DOWNING looked out from the highest tower of Warwick Castle and decided that to England it
had been given to show the growth of man in his highest development of class
but to America
has been reserved the greater blessing of solving for the world the true problem of humanity--that of the abolition of all castes, and the recognition of the divine rights of every human soul.
There was an enormous Warwick vase on Downing's estate, etched with fantastic arabesques around the bowl, and set out at the end of his ...