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Faith, Hope and Love
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brake if in your desire to be adaptable you forget your own standards? I do not dare to explain what good taste is, rather should I like to stress the de- sirability of and difficulty in attaining it. A civilized human being has as basis for behaviour in life — ethical standards of honesty and integrity. But we who try to create or appreciate beauty must have additionally aesthetic standards and these are measured by good taste. It is extremely interesting to read what the incoming Freshmen write on good taste. For the majority the two words mean good taste in dress or pos- sibly in home furnishings. These of coarse have their place, but are indeed only an element, I am tempted to say a superficial element of the ramified and deeply rooted expressions of good taste. I can well imagine and have often experienced seeing a well dressed, well groomed woman sitting in a fairly well arranged drawing room — using a phrase, expressing a thought of vulgar taste; of what avail is all the well schemed finery if it adorns the body of a soul that acts coarsely or thoughtlessly or cuttingly! But how un- spontaneous, how artificial would life he — you say — if we always had to think about all we do or say: is this fitting? does this not annoy anyone? is this gracious? To a rough diamond it does seem artificial. But the beautiful personality instinctively does the unerring and unfailing act of good taste; and indeed you who seek beauty on canvass, within the room, in your cos- tume, must know that the beauty which the mental eye sees in a personality revealed perhaps by a smile or a word or a look is a beauty which transcends even the loveliest work of art, as it reveals a most precious world, the inner world — the world of the spirit. When Byron says: “She walks in Beauty like the night ...” he means precisely her life is controlled by the lofty and elusive controlling factor — good taste. But, you will say, how can we achieve this will-o-the-wisp called good taste when each one interprets it differently, when it can neither be explained nor defined, is it indeed worth bothering about? Consider the eternally valid elements of life — honor, love, loyalty, can they he explained, defined or labelled? No, for each individual each word bears a different message. The message is powerful. Thus the doctrine of good taste must be sensed by each individual and the accumulation of in- dividual searchings for good taste will raise the standard of mankind. Always we shall long to solve the fascinating question: What is good taste? Ella Munsterberg.
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