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Let our artists rather be those who are gifted to discern the

true nature of the beautiful and graceful; then will our youth

dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and sounds, and

receive the good in everything; and beauty, the effluence of fair

works, shall flow into the eye and ear, like a health-giving

breeze from a purer region, and insensibly draw the soul from

earliest years into likeness and sympathy with the beauty of

reason.

There can be no nobler training than that, he replied.