Excerpt from The Oberlin Quarterly Review, Vol. 1: August, 1845 With equal earnestness and distinctness we would disclaim all sympathy with that mistaken benevolence, which finds in the pursuits of literature, the cultivation of taste, and the pro gress of the fine arts, a dark and demon spirit, that must be exorcised from the church before we can entertain any ta tional assurance of the extension, not to say permanenc of the Redeemer's Kingdom. It is a belief which we have long and fondly cherished, that a just and symmetrical view of practical religion, will always involve in it a complete and harmonious development of all the attributes of our nature the principle of taste, as wellas the power of constructing ma chinery and computing dollars and cents; the capability of thqlught and love of science, as well as the faculty of conscience an the feeling of devotion. And it will be one of the objects of our work, to develop, by reviews of literary publications or original essays, the principles of Esthetics, both as an indepen dent science, and in relation with Philosophy in general and to trace, as we have opportunity, the line of intimate connec tion which nature has established, between a well cultivated taste and pure and wholesome moral feelings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.