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[Fults O. <bil...@hk...>]

Only in the graphic arts (though happily but rarely in music) has been
mistaken for [Page: 84] art, thus modestly returns to its proper
place--that of the iconography of descriptive science. Thus from the
Schools of all kinds of knowledge, past and present, we pass into the no
less varied Cloisters of contemplation, meditation, imagination. With
the historian we might explore the Cloisters of the past, built at one
time from the current ideals of the Good, at another of the True, at
another of the Beautiful; indeed, in widely varying measures and
proportions from all of these. How far each of these now expresses the
present, how far it may yet serve the future, is obviously a question of
questions, yet for that very reason one exceeding our present limits.
Enough if in city life the historic place of what is here generalised
under this antique name of Cloister be here recognised; and in some
measure the actual need, the potential place be recognised also. Here is
the need and use, beyond the fundamental claims of the material life of
the Town, and the everyday sanity of the Schools, with all their
observations and information, their commonsense and experience, their
customs and conventions, even their morals and their law, for a deeper
ethical insight than any rule or precedent can afford, for a fuller and
freer intellectual outlook than that which has been derived from any
technical experience or empiric skill, for an imagery which is no mere
review of the phantasma