The Sense of Beauty
The Sense of Beauty
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The beauty has a material and formal basis that we have alreadystudied; no fitness of design will make a building of ten equalstoreys as beautiful as a pavilion or a finely proportioned tower; noutility will make a steamboat as beautiful as a sailing vessel. Butthe forms once established, with their various intrinsic characters, the fitness we know to exist in them will lend them some addedcharm, or their unfitness will disquiet us, and haunt us like aconscientious qualm. The other interests of... our lives here minglewith the purely aesthetic, to enrich or to embitter it.
If Sybaris is so sad a name to the memory -- and who is withoutsome Sybaris of his own? -- if the image of it is so tormenting andin the end so disgusting, this is not because we no longer think itsmarbles bright, its fountains cool, its athletes strong, or its rosesfragrant; but because, mingled with all these supreme beauties, there is the ubiquitous shade of Nemesis, the sense of a vacant willand a suicidal inhumanity.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The beauty has a material and formal basis that we have alreadystudied; no fitness of design will make a building of ten equalstoreys as beautiful as a pavilion or a finely proportioned tower; noutility will make a steamboat as beautiful as a sailing vessel. Butthe forms once established, with their various intrinsic characters, the fitness we know to exist in them will lend them some addedcharm, or their unfitness will disquiet us, and haunt us like aconscientious qualm. The other interests of... our lives here minglewith the purely aesthetic, to enrich or to embitter it.
If Sybaris is so sad a name to the memory -- and who is withoutsome Sybaris of his own? -- if the image of it is so tormenting andin the end so disgusting, this is not because we no longer think itsmarbles bright, its fountains cool, its athletes strong, or its rosesfragrant; but because, mingled with all these supreme beauties, there is the ubiquitous shade of Nemesis, the sense of a vacant willand a suicidal inhumanity.
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