UNLIKELINESS • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Unlikeliness

... common useful objects; it was in the making of these common useful objects (first making by man of genius and thousandfold minute adaptation by respectful mediocrity) that the form qualities came to exist. One may at least hazard this supposition in the face of the extreme unlikeliness that the complexity and perfection of the great works of art could have been obtained solely in works so necessarily rare and few; and that the particular forms constituting each separate style could have originated save under the repeated suggestion ...

— Laurus Nobilis - Chapters on Art and Life • Vernon Lee