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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

Herbert Spencer
Music, Art, Spirit
"Essays on Education". Book by Herbert Spencer, 1861.

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.

Herbert Spencer
Art, Thinking, Achievement
Herbert Spencer (1902). “Facts and comments”

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

Herbert Spencer
Art, Musical, Welfare

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Herbert Spencer
Art, Science, Humanity
Herbert Spencer (1861). “Education: intellectual, moral, and physical”, p.77

The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.

Herbert Spencer
Art, Expression, Feelings
Herbert Spencer (1868). “Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative”, p.46

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