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Which Quotes by Herbert Read
- It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be…
- I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
- But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division,…
- The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest…
- It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the…
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