The Significance of Literary Papers                  17

But let me in clo.sing remind you that all these prospects opened
out by this great gift from our friend enchant us because we have
read and admired his finished works. Let me remind you, in short,
that the artist and thinker wants and deserves to have his finished
work take effect first. That is what he toils for, that is what his
gift compels him and us to regard abo\e all else. It so happens that
in a high civilization the rest is not silence, but literary remains.
Still, we must not take the sketches for the graven image nor the
scaffolding for the edifice. Rather, we are permitted to enter into
the workshop because \ve have seen the real thing, and demon¬
strated our judgment by valuing the full incarnation of the idea.