Nobody who is alert to #beauty without the concept of redemption - of a final transcendence of mortal disorder into a ‘kingdom of ends’. In an age of declining faith art bears enduring witness to the spiritual hunger and immortal longings of our species. Hence #aesthetic#education matters more today than at any previous period in #history.
: We shall soon be in a #world in which a #man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which #people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green. #Progressive people have #illusions about #human#nature and think that they prove their virtue by broadcasting those illusions. Anyone who punctures those illusions is therefore not just a spoilsport, but a threat! This is how #civilizations fall - from the destruction of the #family#institute, and everything from which it has its #roots.