Therefore you never get beyond mechanics. For a man who realized the need of a unity, he understood that this would not do. So he tried to paint the soul. The soul is not the Christian soul; the soul is the universal—the soul, for example, of the sea or of the tree.1 One of the reasons he never painted very much was simply that he tried to draw and draw in order to be able to paint the universal. Needless to say, he never succeeded.
Like CS Lewis, when MacDonald awakened his imagination.
