The Beauty Sense adds so much to the joy of life that it is not easy to see what danger attends it. But, perhaps, Exclusiveness is the Daemon that waits on a too keen sense of the joy of Beauty, whether in music, painting, one's own surroundings, or even in natural scenery. Exclusiveness gets the ear of the Prime Minister and convinces him that nothing else is necessary to complete the happiness of life. In vain does Intellect invite to new fields of research; in vain does good and necessary work present itself; in vain are duties clamorous. The person who is given up to the intoxication of beauty concieves that Beauty and Goodness are one and the same, and that Duty is no more than seeking one's own pleasure in ways one best likes. People, too, become excluded.
Instead of accepting the relations, friends, and neighbours that God sends us in the course of our lives, the devotee of Beauty chooses for himself, and cares to know only those people whose views of life are the same as his own. So with regard to places, he cannot tolerate for a moment things which are unsightly and unlovely, so does he not go where working people and poor people have to live. In the end, he misses the happiness to which the Beauty Sense was meant to minister. For happiness comes of effort, service, wide interests, and, last and least, of enjoyment; and when people put enjoyment, even of beautiful things, in the first place(and indeed in place of all else), they miss the very thing they seek, and become enfeebled in body and fretful and discontent in temper.
But we need not let fear of evil keep us out of that paradise of pleasure which the Beauty Sense is meant to open for us all. Of two things we must take heed. In the first place, we must not lat any better-than- my-neighbor notions get into our heads; and in the next, we must make it out business, as much as in our lies, to bring Beauty to places where it is not. Bearing these two cautions in mind, the Daemon of Exclusiveness need have no terror in us.
- Charlotte Mason in Ourselves
4 comments:
hey man, this was right on! thanks for posting!
"hey man.." --joyanyway
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She's right though, that is pretty deep Beka.
--Tito
thanks tito. i had no earthly idea BEKA was a GIRL.....
by the way, i am always right:)
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