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"Triton and Nereid", by Auguste Rodin
Perhaps most important, the work addresses the point of greatest conflict ... the role of belief in a world of reason. A work that must be read as a kind of last will and testament...leaves us...a compelling case for the following poposition: that a world without a sense of the transcendent and mysterious, a universe ultimately discoverable through reason alone, can only be a barren place; and that the music sounding forth from such a world might be very pretty, but it can never be beautiful.
Citation: James Gaines, author of Evening in the Palace of Reason, Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment: 2005
(Oct 22, 2005 no. 357 in Explore)
"Triton and Nereid", by Auguste Rodin
Perhaps most important, the work addresses the point of greatest conflict ... the role of belief in a world of reason. A work that must be read as a kind of last will and testament...leaves us...a compelling case for the following poposition: that a world without a sense of the transcendent and mysterious, a universe ultimately discoverable through reason alone, can only be a barren place; and that the music sounding forth from such a world might be very pretty, but it can never be beautiful.
Citation: James Gaines, author of Evening in the Palace of Reason, Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment: 2005
(Oct 22, 2005 no. 357 in Explore)