First Book Of The Fine And Useful Arts For The Use Of Schools And Lyceums Classic Reprint

Author : Henry Turner Bailey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483000117
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The School Arts Book, Vol. 5 written by Henry Turner Bailey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The School Arts Book, Vol. 5: September, 1905-June, 1906 It is undeniable that the American democracy, which found its strongest and most durable springs in the ideals of New England Puritanism, has thus far failed to take proper account of the sense of beauty as means of happi ness and to provide for the training of that sense. On the main gate of Harvard University there stands this inscription, taken from New England's First Fruits, a little book published in London in 1643: After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood. Reared convenient places for God's worship and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present' ministers shall lie in the dust. That sentence still describes the main objects which present themselves to the minds of the present generation of Americans when they settle a new region or reconstruct an old one houses, livelihood, churches, civil government, and education; and still that order of development commonly prevails, except that education is nowadays put earlier. To that list it is time to add the cultivation of the sense of beauty. Or rather to interfuse that cultivation sympathetically with every item on the list. The Puritan. Establishing himself painfully on the eastern rim of the wild continent, thought rather of duty than of beauty, and distrusted pleasurable sen sations and emotions as probably unworthy of a serious soul, not looking for happiness in this life, but only in the next; and to this day his descendants and followers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.