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Show GREAT INFLUENCE OF BEAUTY Though Too Often Ignored, It Is as Deep and Useful a Part of Life as Utility. Beauty is as deep and as useful a part of ou general life as is what we term utility. It has just such a reason rea-son for being; It has a similar force; it has a set place in the scheme of the world. E es not fully opened to ttie beautiful are not wholly alive to the influence of beauty upon our lives and our actions. Alas! sometimes we scoff at the highest expressions of beauty. That is to say, the highest human expression. ex-pression. Those even greater beauties, which are divine expressions, we ignore. Just think for a moment. Take yourself away from yourself and contemplate con-template yourself and your living, set against the background of the universal univer-sal scheme of things. Think of me myriads of infinitely petty, wasteful and useless thoughts and actions desires de-sires and dislikes which occupy jour day. At the moment you read this take yourself back two years ago Of course, you have not the slightest conception con-ception of what happened. But let me tell you that on that day, two years ago, were happening two, a dozen or a hundred things which seemed to you to be supreme importance. Do you understand how we fill our lives to the brim with millions of such trifling in-consequences? in-consequences? Kansas City Star |