Art, Morals, and the War

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Excerpt from Art, Morals, and the War: A Lecture Delivered in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, on Thursday, November 12, 1914 As some of you may possibly remember, my last lecture at the close of Summer Term was delivered amid a tempest of thunder, lightning, and hail. We meet to-day for the first lecture of this Term with the whole world about us in a tempest indeed - a tempest under which, in the prophetic words, 'the foundations of the earth do shake, ' and are being, as it were visibly, 'discovered.' You will not therefore be surprised, I am sure, nor think it needs much apology on my part, if this afternoon my thoughts run rather upon the War, and, as it seems to me, the final, moral, spiritual significance of it, than directly upon some aspect of Art. With my next lecture we shall once again settle down quietly to our particular business. On November the 26th I hope to speak to you about that great man and wholly unique artist Jean Francois Millet - a lecture which I have more than once promised you, and which will fit in very well as a conclusion to the line of thought I was trying throughout the whole of last year to lay before you in my course from November to June, beginning with Leonardo and ending with William Blake. On December the 3rd our subject will be the Art of Lettering in Decoration. If that title sounds to you at first hearing to imply something uninterestingly specialized and not of general importance, I shall be in hopes of convincing you to the contrary. That of course waits to be seen. But at any rate if it is any consolation both for the Millet afternoon, and the afternoon on this Art of Lettering, I can promise you some pleasing illustrations. For to-day I have none. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.