Logan Republican | 1908-04-01 | Page 6 | Taste

Taste. Every man's taste Is valid for himself; him-self; nono may presume to instruct another. an-other. The titsto of a navvy who strolls Into a picture gallery Is quite as authoritative, au-thoritative, or, better, quite as nugatory, nuga-tory, as that of Its trained curator. Accordingly, the task of a museum Is to grow automatically In the sunshine of science, avoiding the moonshine of esthetic uncertainties. Evidently, If this objection is based on any truth I It Is decisive. Hut It Is based not on truth at all, but upon a strangely mor- ' bid timidity In tho academic tempera- ment. It is a typical Idol of the scientific sci-entific cave. Unquestionably such Im-potenco Im-potenco of taste frequently exists In specialists. Charles Darwin has recorded re-corded the gradual withering of -his esthetic life. It has lemalned for our times to exnlt this Incapacity, this malady of the soul. Into it high scientific scien-tific virtue. Atlantic Monthly.