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[00:00.53]Lesson 24
[00:02.18]Beauty
[00:08.00]What do glimpses of beauty, either in nature or art, often suggest to the human mind?
[00:17.37]A young man sees a sunset and,
[00:20.00]unable to understand or to express the emotion that it rouses in him,
[00:25.08]concludes that it must be the gateway to a world that lies beyond
[00:29.91]It is difficult for any of us in moments of intense aesthetic experience
[00:35.38]to resist the suggestion that we are catching a glimpse of a light
[00:39.50]that shines down to us from a different realm of existence, different and,
[00:45.52]because the experience is intensely moving, in some way higher.
[00:50.94]And, though the gleams blind and dazzle, yet do they convey a hint of beauty and serenity
[00:57.44]greater than we have known or imagined. Greater too than we can describe;
[01:02.99]for language, which was invented to convey the meanings of this world
[01:08.00]cannot readily be fitted to the uses of another.
[01:12.82]That all great art has this power of suggesting a world beyond is undeniable.
[01:19.84]In some moods, nature shares it.
[01:23.37]There is no sky in June so blue that it does not point forward to a bluer,
[01:29.09]no sunset so beautiful that it does not waken the vision of a greater beauty,