(d) It inspires a love of truth.
(e) It develops charity for the past; forbearance for the present; and faith and hope for the future.
4. Æsthetic (appealing to the sense of order, beauty, and proportion).
(a) It stirs to an appreciation of the beauties of man's handwork in sculpture, architecture, painting, musical and literary form, industry and commerce.
(b) It reveals the beauties of human genius in adapting institutions and governmental forms and processes to desired ends.
(c) It refines and enriches the emotions by bringing them into contact with the emotional expressions of the race.
(d) It develops literary expression, and a taste for good reading.
(e) It thrills and inspires, and incites to more thorough-going efforts to attain ideals of proportion and order.
5. Practical.
(a) It aids in interpreting many allusions in literature and current expressions.