Letter 021 London, 10 August 1874
Dear Theo,
“Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.�p style="line-height:25px;text-indent:32px"> “He that is without sin among you, let him cast a stone at her.�p style="line-height:25px;text-indent:32px"> So keep to your own ideas, and if you doubt whether they are right, test them with those of Him who dared to say, “I am the truth,�or with those of some very human person, Michelet, for instance�p style="line-height:25px;text-indent:32px"> Virginity of soul and impurity of body can go together. You know the “Margaret at the Fountain,�by Ary Scheffer, is there a purer being than that girl “who loved so much�
“Leys n’est pas un imitateur mais un semblable�[Leys is not an imitator but a similar one] is a true saying that struck me too. One might say the same of Tissot’s pictures, of his “Walk in the Snow,�“Walk on the Ramparts,�“Marguerite in Church,�etc.
With the money I gave you, you must buy Alphonse Karr’s Voyage autour de mon jardin. Be sure to do that �I want you to read it.
Anna and I walk every evening. Autumn is coming fast and that makes nature more serious and more intimate still. We are going to move to a house quite covered in ivy; I will soon write more from there.
Compliments to anyone who may inquire after me.
Vincent