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the outcome of his analytical investigation. Practical wisdom 

 is the expression of man's will and power to utilise things in 

 his own interest. Morality is the expression of man's self- 

 consciousness and judgment as to the right and wrong of 

 conduct, governed by subjective qualities inherent in a race 

 or epoch. 



Reality, and consequently truth, is involved in all these 

 several ways of regarding the outer and the inner world. The 

 aspects and appearances of things, their practical utilities and 

 values, their ethical and social relations, are no less facts for 

 us than are their essence, component elements, manners of 

 behaviour. But science has primarily to do with things as 

 they are, art with their aspects and appearances, practical 

 wisdom with their utilities, morality with their relation to the 

 spiritual organism. It is because we cannot see the whole at 

 once that we divide in this way. 



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Art, which deals mainly with aspects and appearances, and 

 which aims at noble pleasure, has a special duty to be mindful 

 of the admonitions given by her sisters. She seeks to present 

 the outer and the inner worlds to human sensibilities ; she 

 must do this truthfully, she must do it wholesomely, at the 

 risk of wounding or insulting sensibility. She claims to 

 reveal new joys ; she brings to light permanent and inex- 

 haustible treasures of loveliness, which the material universe 

 and the soul of man contain, but which elude the eyes of 

 those who have not caught their aspects in her magic mirror. 

 How can she fulfil this function if she sees falsely or feels 

 basely? The more we reflect, the more are we led to 

 the conviction that art cannot neglect the correspondences 

 between beauty and truth, beauty and goodness, beauty and 

 use. The more we drive issues to their ultimate conclusion, 

 the more clear will it appear that beauty, which deserves that 

 name, cannot exist without truth, goodness, serviceable 

 quality. In proportion as beauty includes these elements, 

 it is vigorous, enduring, vital, universal, for all times and 



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