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public servants-- or whether he has such a place-- I think that it's not being too pretentious to say that he, along with the philosopher, the poet, the musician, the writer, has been greatly responsible for a very tangible kind of public service-- that is the advancement [[strikethrough]] advancing the [[/strikethrough]] of the civilization and culture of peoples.

Out of his experience he has, through the ages, distilled those images which are now a part of the imaginative life of all of us. How much of our religious feeling derives from the paintings of Fra Angelico Giotto and Cimabue,! how much of our sense of beauty stems out of Greek sculpture! Whatever sensitiveness an artist may have, can arouse, in time, a heightened common sensitiveness. Even satire and bitterness (think of Daumier-- Heironymous Bosch!) add to the scope of the average man and to any society's understanding of itself. It may be that the driving of a truck, the organizing of a business, the augmenting [[strikethrough]] improvement [[/strikethrough]] of an atomic bomb, the governing of a city are all necessary aspects of the functioning of society. Certainly the people who perform these tasks are all entirely worthy public servants. But then, you are familiar with the old question: "who was Mayor of Amsterdam when Rembrandt painted?".

Certainly all these [[strikethrough]] tasks functions [[/strikethrough]] functions are necessary to the smooth operation of our civilization [[strikethrough]] society [[/strikethrough]], but I believe that its growth is attributable to a different source, namely [[strikethrough]] namely [[/strikethrough]] to those [[strikethrough]] people [[/strikethrough]] who worked in the dark, not knowing whether anyone would care or not, trying to put into