The Fine Arts in England; Their States and Prospects Considered Relatively to National Education

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1840 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. GENERAL REVIEW, IN CONCLUSION, OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE ECONOMY OF THE ARTS OF DESIGN IN ENGLAND, ITS STATE AND PROSPECTS..... Progress is The law of life--Man is not man as yet, While only here and there a star dispels The darkness--here and there a towering mind O'erlooks its crawling fellows..., When all the race is perfected alike (As man, that is, ) then in completed man Begins anew a tendency to God. Paracelsus. Truths, of universal interest, are too often considered as so true that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. S. T. Coleridge. CHAPTER XII. GENERAL REVIEW, IN CONCLUSION, OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE ECONOMY OF THE ARTS OF DESIGN IN ENGLAND, ITS STATE AND PROSPECTS. 1. It has been the object of the preceding pages to bring under review, as succinctly as the extent of the subject and the limit of the writer's ability would permit, the several relations in which the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture have been, or may become, the subject-matter, either of legislative enactment, or of the administrative care of government. 2. As most of the topics included within this limit had been recently the subjects of investigation before a select committee of the House of Commons, appointed to enquire into the best means of extending a knowledge of the arts, and of the principles of design among the people (especially the manufacturing population) of the country; and also to enquire into the constitution, management, and effects of institutions connected with the arts, the present survey was commenced with an analysis of the report of that committee, arranged under three principal heads: first, the means of elementary instruction in the ...