« The ultimate motive power, alike in
science, in morality, and in religion, is
the sense of value, the sense of
importance. [...] This sense of value imposes
on life incredible labours, and apart from
it life sinks back into the passivity of
its lower types. The most penetrating
exhibition of this force is the sense of
beauty, the aesthetic sense of realised perfection.
This thought leads me to ask, whether
in out modern education we emphasise
sufficiently the functions of art». (AE p. 40)