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is like life in that there is rarely truth to be discovered therein... there is only error to be exposed.

(Nine times out of ten,) in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered... there is only error to be exposed

is able to conquer new-found lands, to conquer them by arts instead of arms.

Charles Kingsley in the mid-nineteenth century: Yes- were I asked to sum up in one sentence the good of great cities, I would point first to Bristol, and then to the United States, and say, That is what great cities can do. By concentrating in one place, and upon one subject, men, genius, information, and wealth, they can conquer new-found lands by arts instead of arms: they can beget new nations; and replenish and subdue the earth from pole to pole.

is man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

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