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HOPES & FEARS FOR ART. FIVE LECTURES BY WILLIAM MORRIS

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_POCKET EDITION_

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LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS

1919

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1st Edition, Ellis & White, 1882 2nd ,, do. 1883 3rd ,, do. 1883 4th ,, Longmans 1896 5th ,, do. 1898 6th ,, do. 1903 7th ,, do. 1911

Included in Longmans’ Pocket Library, February 1919

CONTENTS

PAGE The Lesser Arts 1 The Art of the People 38 The Beauty of Life 71 Making the Best of It 114 The Prospects of Architecture in Civilisation 169

THE LESSER ARTS {1}

HEREAFTER I hope in another lecture to have the pleasure of laying before you an historical survey of the lesser, or as they are called the Decorative Arts, and I must confess it would have been pleasanter to me to have begun my talk with you by entering at once upon the subject of the history of this great industry; but, as I have something to say in a third lecture about various matters connected with the practice of Decoration among ourselves in these days, I feel that I should be in a false position before you, and one that might lead to confusion, or overmuch explanation, if I did not let you know what I think on the nature and scope of these arts, on their condition at the present time, and their outlook in times to come. In doing this it is like enough that I shall say things with which you will very much disagree; I must ask you therefore from the outset to believe that whatever I may blame or whatever I may praise, I neither, when I think of what history has been, am inclined to lament the past, to despise the present, or despair of the future; that I believe all the change and stir about us is a sign of the world’s life, and that it will lead—by ways, indeed, of which we have no guess—to the bettering of all mankind.