The two men started away from the home of the professor, the business man carrying the violin.
“Let me take it,” his musical friend said. “You might meet some one you know.”
“I’ll carry it,” the business man retorted. “I don’t care how many friends I meet. And, besides, you might drop it.”—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
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Values Rated—See [Discrimination, Unfair].
Values, Spiritual—See [Spiritual Values].
VALUES, STANDARD OF
When Tucker, Dean of Gloucester, asserted in the presence of Sir Joshua Reynolds that a pin-maker was more valuable to society than a Raphael, that ardent lover of his profession replied with some asperity: “That is an observation of a very narrow mind, a mind that is confined to the mere object of commerce. Commerce is the means, not the end of happiness. The end is a rational enjoyment by means of art and sciences. It is, therefore, the highest degree of folly to set the means in a higher rank of esteem than the end. It is as much as to say that the brick-maker is superior to the architect.”
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VANDALISM