Excerpt from The Religion of Beauty: And the Impersonal Estate The good and bad, in truth, may be found everywhere and at all times; but The Impersonal Estate has only to do with the good - that is to say, with the beautiful. Many a valiant knight of the weeping pen will not let us forget how bad we are. The malcontents may be depended upon to guard us from a dearth of protests The grumblers will never let humanity forget how to growl; and the reformers will see to it that there is always something to reform. 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.