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    Everything in nature is incessantly changing and transitory. — Carmelics
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    Herder’s first charge is that Lessing fails to explain why beauty must be the first law of the visual arts. In Herder’s view, visual art must aim at beauty because only in that way can it overcome the essential conflict between its own spatial, static character and the incessantly changing, transitory character of everything in nature.

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