No object really interests us but man, and in man only his superiorities; and, though we are aware of a perfect law in Nature, it has a fascination for us only through its relation to him, or, as it is rooted in the mind.✨
At the birth of ✨ Winckelmann, more than a hundred years ago, side by side with this arid, departmental, post-mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty; and perhaps some sparks from it may yet light a conflagration in the other.
Knowledge of men, ✨
knowledge of manners,
The power of form, and our sensibility to personal influence, never go out of fashion.💥
These are facts of a science which we study without a book, whose teachers and subjects are always near us.💥
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