Every Age Yearns For A More Beautiful

Today The Average Inhabitant Of The Western Hemisphere Knows A Little Of Everything. He Has The Newspaper On His Breakfast Table And Wireless Within Reach. For The Evening There Is The Film, Cards, Or A Meeting To Complete A Day Spent In The Office Or Factory Where Nothing That Is Essential Has Been Learnt. With Slight Variation This Picture Of A Low Cultural Average Holds Good Over The Entire Range From Factory-hand Of Clerk To Manager Or Director. Only The Personal Will To Culture, In Whatever Field And However Pursued Raises Modern Man Above This Level.

Every Age Yearns For A More Beautiful World. The Deeper The Desperation And The Depression About The Confusing Present, The More Intense That Yearning.

Science, Unguided By A Higher Abstract Principle, Freely Hands Over Its Secrets To A Vastly Developed And Commercially Inspired Technology, And The Latter, Even Less Restrained By A Supreme Culture Saving Principle, With The Means Of Science Creates All The Instruments Of Power Demanded From It By The Organization Of Might.

Barbarisation May Be Defined As A Cultural Process Whereby An Attained Condition Of High Value Is Gradually Overrun And Supersededby Elements Of Lower Quality.

What The Study Of History And Artistic Creation Have In Common Is A Mode Of Forming Images.