Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Indoors and Out, Vol. 1: October 1905
Grant if you like that it is most unwholesome for society to turn to specialists for the expression of those things it should voice by instinct. The condition is false indeed; but it is the only alter native we have, and it is temporary in its duration. The artist should be no specialist, but rather a mouthpiece, a singer with a clearer note and more far - reaching voice, a deeper vision, perhaps, than those of his fellows, but singing the same great song. The world must always turn to the priest for guidance in spiritual things, to the physician in bodily disease, to the soldier for strong defence, to the lawyer and the diplomat for the guarding of sacred rights, to the schoolmaster for mental training, to the engineer for the solution of the natural problems of the obvious world. These are, and must be forever, Specialists, but the artist to whom we go for the weaving of the golden thread that binds all else together and who, with the consecration of beauty, makes it all signifi cant, glorious and alive, he is a specialist only for a time, and until the day dawns when at last he finds himself, not a voice calling in the wilder ness, but a silver clarion only a pace in front of the mighty ranks of organized humanity marching im mutably onward.
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