sees the boy stop to tie his shoe, will find the
same themes that engaged the attention of the ancient Greeks, and such
observation and the illustrations which follow will do much to correct
that foolish impression that mental and physical beauty are always
divorced.

To you, more than perhaps to any other country, has Nature been generous
in furnishing material for art workers to work in. You have marble
quarries where the stone is more beautiful in colour than any the Greeks
ever had for their beautiful work, and yet day after day I am confronted
with the great building of some stupid man who has used the beautiful
material as if it were not precious almost beyond speech. Marble should
not be used save by noble workmen. There is nothing which gave me a
greater sense of barrenness in travelling through the country than the
entire absence of wood carving on your houses. Wood carving is the
simplest of the decorative arts. In Switzerland the little barefooted
boy beautifies the porch of his father's house with examples of skill in
this direction. Why should not American boys do a great deal more and
better than Swiss boys?

There is nothing to my mind more coarse in conception and more vulgar in
execution than modern jewellery. This is something that can easily be
corrected. Something better should be made out of the beautiful gold
which is stored up in your mountain hollows and strewn along your river
beds. When I was at Leadville and reflected that all the shining silver
that I saw coming from the mines would be made into ugly dollars, it made
me sad. It should be made into something more permanent. The golden
gates at Florence are as beautiful today as when Michael Angelo saw them.

We should see more of the workman than we do. We should not be content
to have the salesman stand between us--the salesman who knows nothing of
what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
And watching the workman will teach that most important lesson--the
nobility of all rational workmanship.

I said in my last lecture that art would create a new brotherhood among
men by furnishing a universal language. I said that under its beneficent
influences war might pass away. Thinking this, what place can I ascribe
to art in our education? If children grow up among all fair and lovely
things, they will grow to love beauty and detest ugliness before they
know the reason why. If you go into a house wh