Excerpt from The Identification of the Artisan and Artist, the Proper Object of American Education: Illustrated by a Lecture of Cardinal Wiseman, on the Relation of the Arts of Design With the Arts of Production; Addressed to American Workingmen and Educators, With an Essay on Froebel's Reform of Primary Education<br><br>Had the great Cardinal lived in America, he would not have felt this despair. It is the felicity of the constitution which protects the devel Opment of the American nationality, that it quenches no hope of a return (and with interest) of all that the past has intimated of the dignity of man. The events of the last ten years in America have taken away forever the disgrace of work and there is no motto more befitting every American than Ora et labora (pray and labor). The progress of science and its applications, by making slat/es qf flee greaf zasemz'éleforees of nature, are fast vindicating to human beings the pre rogative Of all that work which men only, by their individual intelli gence and skilled hands, can accomplish; or, in other words, it is making all human labor to rise into the degree of creative genius, which is the intellectual image of God in man. Fine Art, that is, architecture, sculpture, painting and music, are now the forms of this creative activity but not all, for every form of human activity, even in dividual formation of character, will become Fine Art when principles of eternal order and beauty, for the use and pleasure of men, shall be embodied in them. The life and manifest destiny Of the American nationality is to make every man creative on every plane of his life.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.