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Lecture II* ish, nay, it will not long exist, unless it be shared
Art and the by all people; and for my part I don't wish that
Beauty of it should*
the Earth* Therefore it is that I stand before you to say that
the world has in these days to choose whether she
will have art or leave it, and that we also, each one
of us, have to make up our minds which camp we
will or can join, those that honestly accept art or
those that honestly reject it.
Once more let me try to put into words what these
two alternatives mean. If you accept it, it mustbe
part of your daily lives, and the daily life of every
man. It will be with us wherever we go, in the
ancient city full of traditions of past time, in the
newly/cleared farm in America or the colonies,
where no man has dwelt for traditions to gather
round him; in the quiet countryside as in the busy
town, no place shall be without it. You will have
it with you in your sorrow as in your joy, in your
workaday hours as in your leisure. It shall be no
respecter of persons, but be shared by gentle and
simple, learned & unlearned, & be as a language
that all can understand. It will not hinder any
work that is necessary to the life of man at the best,
but it will destroy all degrading toil, all enervate
ingluxury,allfoppishfrivolity.Itwillbethedead^
ly foe of ignorance,dishonesty, and tyranny, and
will foster good-will, fair dealing, and confidence
between man & man. It will teach you to respect
the highest intellect with a manly reverence, but
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Art and the by all people; and for my part I don't wish that
Beauty of it should*
the Earth* Therefore it is that I stand before you to say that
the world has in these days to choose whether she
will have art or leave it, and that we also, each one
of us, have to make up our minds which camp we
will or can join, those that honestly accept art or
those that honestly reject it.
Once more let me try to put into words what these
two alternatives mean. If you accept it, it mustbe
part of your daily lives, and the daily life of every
man. It will be with us wherever we go, in the
ancient city full of traditions of past time, in the
newly/cleared farm in America or the colonies,
where no man has dwelt for traditions to gather
round him; in the quiet countryside as in the busy
town, no place shall be without it. You will have
it with you in your sorrow as in your joy, in your
workaday hours as in your leisure. It shall be no
respecter of persons, but be shared by gentle and
simple, learned & unlearned, & be as a language
that all can understand. It will not hinder any
work that is necessary to the life of man at the best,
but it will destroy all degrading toil, all enervate
ingluxury,allfoppishfrivolity.Itwillbethedead^
ly foe of ignorance,dishonesty, and tyranny, and
will foster good-will, fair dealing, and confidence
between man & man. It will teach you to respect
the highest intellect with a manly reverence, but
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