“A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.”
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.