Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).
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The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.
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It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards 'First I think, and then I draw my think.' What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe.
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We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.
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The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.
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