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Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1927, Page 2

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the expression of beauty. “Art is expression and it is universally understood. In some form or other it appeals to everyone; and everyone needs it, as everyone loves it. In most of its forms (as in architecture, music or sculpture) it is international, because it needs no translation; and other nations judge by our arts. In deed, this is final judgement of posterity : we judge the civilisations of the past by their art: we explore and excavate; we sav; this people was savages; that people was gross; Hint this, and this, were civilized. And in estimating the civilisation we discover also the value of the religion ; for no great art has ever existed apart from religion, and the chief work of art has always been the interpretation of religion, from the Dynasties of Egypt to Pheidias, from the domes and mosaics of Byzantine Christianty and the Cathedrals of France and England, to Giotto, Michelangelo nad Rembrandt, from Homer to Wordsworth, from the Golden Sequence to Bncli and Beethoven.” Dr. Percy Dearmer.