Note 80 — Chapter XXIII · EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM—HISTORIC. THE MIDDLE AGES.

“But it is one thing to admit that æsthetic culture is in a high degree conducive to human happiness, and another thing to admit that it is a fundamental requisite to human happiness. However important it may be, it must yield precedence to those kinds of culture which bear more directly upon the duties of life. As before hinted, literature and the fine arts are made possible by those activities which make individual and social life possible; and manifestly that which is made possible must be postponed to that which makes it possible.”—“Education,” p. 72. By Herbert Spencer. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1883.