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machinery of its' vast competitions to grant first importance to matter pertaining to the soul. Art has been caught up in this net of materialism until a work of art seems good to us only if it resembles something else. Indeed we have forgotten what the Greeks knew so well, that aesthetics are as necessary to the soul as Religion, as quickening to the intellect as mathematics. We pride ourselves on our love of the beauty of nature - How much do we love it? Of seven men, one will see a hillside as an investment - it will bring him personal gain; the scientist notes the make of the soil, the age of its stones, the growth of its trees, - he is after the truth embedded in it, but he may see nothing of its beauty; the literary man will be reminded of Greek goddesses or of Stratford on Avon; he admires it for that of which it reminds him - the sentimentalist will see in it the home of his childhood, & he loves it for its association; to the humanitarian it appears fruitful - his thought is of its use, - it will feed mankind; another will glory in