Excerpt from Phaethon: With Three Other Stories in Verse and a Prose Contention The human voice may be so cultivated that a hymn shall be sung with the most exquisite art. But shall we say that there is no art because it expresses the moral truth embodied in the hymn? Painting is expression in lines and colors, and all that relates to it as an art, the blending of hues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.