The Art Of Life: An Essay
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- The Art Of Life: An Essay
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- 1903
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The Art Of Life: An Essay
Author: Kolbe, F. C. (Frederick Charles), 1854-1926
Year: 1903
CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE RELATION OF THE ART OF LIFE TO ALL THE OTHER ARTS. The aim of Art — Spiritual Beauty — is one of the ways to God — and to see more of it is to see more of God — Art being the expression of Beauty — is subject to the laws of Beauty. — Every energy has its corresponding art, — the lower senses, — physical strength, — dress,— building, — writing and carving, — singing, — speaking, thinking, — living. — All these Arts linked together in the soul, — and in the story of humanity. — The qualities common to all of them. — Those of thought and of Life the highest, because spiritual, — and because more directly supernatural. — The Art of Life defined. .. .. 1-12 CHAPTER II THE MATERIAL OF THE ART. — THE SOUL. The material of our Art, — neither less — nor more. — than the Soul. — Hence the need of studying our soul — from its lower side as well as its higher. — This study is three-fold. — (1) The soul's life below consciousness. — The Church's view — has been only defined sufficiently for the doctrine of the Incarnation. — We may have slight differences on it, — but many prevailing theories are quite excluded. — The soul is the form of the body. — The almost-nothingne