It needs no argument, I suppose, to show that these arts are no less essential to the growth of the human spirit than literature or government.
FOOTNOTES:
[23] On the probability that song preceded speech, see Darwin, Descent of Man, chap. 19.
[24] Decline and Fall, Milman-Smith edition, i, 354.
[25] The Cambridge Modern History, i, 684, 685.
[26] Milton, Areopagitica.
[27] Bacon, Antitheta on Studies.
[28] Decline and Fall, Milman-Smith edition, iii, 428.
[29] Walter Pater, Essay on the School of Giorgione.