{"product_id":"2940013618206","title":"Right Living As A Fine Art","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _ONE_\u003cbr\u003e  A Study of Channing's \"Symphony\" as an\u003cbr\u003e  Outline of the Ideal Life and Character\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _TWO_\u003cbr\u003e  Channing's Vision of the Beautiful Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _THREE_\u003cbr\u003e  The Largest Wealth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _FOUR_\u003cbr\u003e  The World a Whispering Gallery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _FIVE_\u003cbr\u003e  How Knowledge Becomes Wisdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _SIX_\u003cbr\u003e  The Disguises of Inferiority\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _SEVEN_\u003cbr\u003e  Strength Blossoming into Beauty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _EIGHT_\u003cbr\u003e  Life's Crowning Perfection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"_And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and establish thou the\u003cbr\u003ework of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it._\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Psalm xc: 17._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMY SYMPHONY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and\u003cbr\u003erefinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy,\u003cbr\u003enot rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages with open heart; to\u003cbr\u003estudy hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions,\u003cbr\u003ehurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,\u003cbr\u003egrow up through the common--this is my symphony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                    WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA STUDY OF CHANNING'S \"SYMPHONY\" AS AN OUTLINE OF THE IDEAL LIFE AND\u003cbr\u003eCHARACTER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo the revival of learning in the fourteenth century, to the revival of\u003cbr\u003ereligion in the sixteenth, and the revival of liberty in the eighteenth\u003cbr\u003ecentury must now be added the revival of the beautiful in this new era for\u003cbr\u003eart. In former ages man was content if his house was dry, his coat was\u003cbr\u003ewarm, his tool strong. But now has come an era when man's house must have\u003cbr\u003ebeautiful walls, when woman's dress must have harmonious hues, when the\u003cbr\u003espeaker's truth must be clothed in words of beauty; while in religion if\u003cbr\u003ethe worshiper once was content with a harsh hymn, now man best loves the\u003cbr\u003esong that has a beautiful sentiment and a sweet tune. Always the useful had\u003cbr\u003ea cash value. Now beauty has become a commodity. To-day, to hold his place,\u003cbr\u003ethe artisan must become an artist. The era of ugliness, with its clumsy\u003cbr\u003etools and ungainly garments, has gone forever. No longer content with\u003cbr\u003elending strength to coat or chair or car, manufacturers now vie with one\u003cbr\u003eanother in a struggle to make the garment take on lines of grace, and\u003cbr\u003ecolors soft and beautiful. Society seems to be standing upon the threshold\u003cbr\u003eof the greatest art movement in history. Best of all this, revival of the\u003cbr\u003ebeautiful promises to be a permanent social possession.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery brief and fitful that first art epoch when Phidias polished statues,\u003cbr\u003ethe very fragments of which are the despair of modern sculptors. All too\u003cbr\u003eshort also that era when Raphael and Botticelli brought the canvas into\u003cbr\u003ewhat seemed the zenith of its perfection. It was as if the vestal virgin of\u003cbr\u003ebeauty had drawn near to fan the flickering light into a fierce flame only\u003cbr\u003eto allow it quickly to die out again. But if other art epochs have been\u003cbr\u003esoon followed by eras of ugliness and tyranny, it was because formerly the\u003cbr\u003epatrician class alone was interested in the beautiful. In that far-off\u003cbr\u003etime, Pericles had his palace and Athens her temple, but the common people\u003cbr\u003edwelt in mud huts, wore coats of sheepskin, and slept on beds of straw. The\u003cbr\u003ebeauty that was manifest in pictures, marbles, rich textures, bronzes,\u003cbr\u003ebelonged exclusively to the cathedral or the palace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow has come an era when art is diffused. Beauty is sprinkled all over the\u003cbr\u003einstruments of dining-room, parlor and library. It is organized into\u003cbr\u003etextures of cotton, wool and silk. Even in the poor man's cottage blossoms\u003cbr\u003ebreak forth upon floor and walls, while vines festoon the humblest door.\u003cbr\u003eOnce, at great expense, a baron in France or Germany would send an artist\u003cbr\u003einto Italy to copy some masterpiece of Titian or Tintoretto. Now modern\u003cbr\u003ephotography makes it possible for the poorest laborer to look upon the\u003cbr\u003esemblance of great pictures, statues, cathedrals, landscapes--treasures\u003cbr\u003ethese once beyond the wealth of princes. Having made tools, books, travel,\u003cbr\u003ehome, religion to be life-teachers, God has now ordained the beautiful as\u003cbr\u003ean apostle of the higher Christian life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecognizing the hand of God in every upward movement of society, we explain\u003cbr\u003ethis new enthusiasm for art upon the principle that beauty is the outer\u003cbr\u003esign of an inner perfection. Oft with lying skill men veneer the plaster\u003cbr\u003epillar with slabs of marble, and hide soft wood with strips of mahogany.\u003cbr\u003eBut beauty is no outer veneer. 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