Capitolo 39
'You know that you are a reasonable creature, so I don't mind to discuss
this question with You. You have an ethical foundation to
Your nature, and you want to see things done on decent motives of
distributive justice. There I am one with you. But you have it also got
an aesthetical side to Your nature that value manufactures him disputing
with on the matter. I won't dispute with Your vernacular he materialized
socialist that the frieze of the Parthenon would separate him for road
thick, or you throw down the frescoes of Giotto because they represents scenes
in the fabulous lives of saints and martyrs. What job you know
of art is when you see him/it; and therefore you are value disputing
with, what really Your Continental and vulgar socialist is not. The
a convincing matter for him is the odor of grape of grape-hit.'
'I recognize', said Ernest, 'that the jobs of art, of poetry or
of music that we possess is a great inheritance from the past;
and I would make all self I could preserve them intact for those that
comes later us.'
'I am sure you are able. Any restoration or being a coppersmith in you, I am
certain. Well, you give then, anything for a world that
did it have this aesthetical side to his/her social existence it didn't arrive?
You give anything for a world that would not appreciate to all painting,
does carve, music, poetry? I am not able. I don't want such world.
I won't approve such world. I won't do anything to further or
leftovers such world. It is suddenly repugnant to me, and I banish
it, as Themistocles banished the Athenians.'
'But it considers', said Ernest, 'we live in a world where men and women
indeed you/he/she is starving. As we reconcile to our consciences the
spending of a penny on an useless thing when others are dying
of lack pure and simple, and cold, and the nudity? That is the great question
that is always oppressing my dissatisfied and poor conscience.'
'Then ago each--except Herbert: he explains him all on
the biological motives as the beautiful action of discriminative of disposition
selection. Simple, but not consolatory. Anchor, seems to the other