... a higher and more spiritual enjoyment, can be thrown into the balance against these, and unite its forces with those other perceptions which release us from the sensuous and passionate. The love of the beautiful is often a powerful auxiliary of virtue, by engaging the faculties in an ennobling form of activity, thus at once preoccupying the ground against vicious inclinations, and bringing ... forms call into requisition the rudiments of beautiful expression, in its lines and out lines and surfaces. Thus may pleasure still run through all the wearier passages of life, the love of the he...

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... a higher and more spiritual enjoyment, can be thrown into the balance against these, and unite its forces with those other perceptions which release us from the sensuous and passionate. The love of the beautiful is often a powerful auxiliary of virtue, by engaging the faculties in an ennobling form of activity, thus at once preoccupying the ground against vicious inclinations, and bringing ... forms call into requisition the rudiments of beautiful expression, in its lines and out lines and surfaces. Thus may pleasure still run through all the wearier passages of life, the love of the he...

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... non-egalitarian argument. There are obviously some people who are more intelligent and thus more capable of higher levels of reasoning than others. We can prove this through various IQ tests, anecdotal evidence, and simply the existence of people whose limited experience of the world leaves them less prepared to pursue lofty, academic pursuits. For example, we would say that a Harvard ... for happiness. Things are not desirable because we desire them. Rather, they are desirable because they allow us a deeper understanding of reason. "It is true that when we fall in love, or accomplish s...

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