I. Thought-making;
II. Heart-learning;
III. Truth-seeking.
Now, just to end with let us read a few words from a book I trust we all may read some day: [33] "Great art is the expression of the mind of a great man, and mean art of a weak man." Let us remember that in choosing things to play.
Further on Ruskin says: "If stone work is well put together, it means that a thoughtful man planned it, and a careful man cut it, and an honest man cemented it." [34]
Likewise in these things one can see what is classic—work out of the heart and well done, and that comes from a thoughtful, careful, honest person.
CHAPTER IX.
WHAT WE SHOULD PLAY.
"But blessings do not fall in listless hands."—Bayard Taylor.
We already begin to understand what the classics are. Year by year as our interest in the beautiful increases, we shall gain more definite knowledge about classic art. That which is classic will begin to announce itself in us. Our own choice indicates our taste but does not always indicate what is best for us. And one of the purposes of art is to improve the taste by setting before us the finest works; in these, by study, we find beauty with which we are unacquainted. Thus we enlarge our capacity for it.