TO SPEAK about sparing anything because it is 

 beautiful is to waste one's breath and incur ridicule 

 in the bargain. The cesthetic sense — the power to 

 enjoy through the eye, the ear, and the imagination — 

 is just as important a factor in the scheme of human 

 happiness as the corporeal sense of eating and drink- 

 ing; but there has never been a time when the world 

 would admit it. The "practical men," who seem 

 forever on the throne, know very well that beauty is only 

 meant for lovers and young persons — stuff to suckle 

 fools withal. The main affair of life is to get the dol- 

 lar, and if there is any money in cutting the throat 

 of beauty, why, by all means, cut her throat. That 

 is what "practical men" have been doing since the 

 world began. 



— Dr. John C. Van Dyke. 



