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seems to me that a few words of preface to this lecture may be opportune, both to explain our attitude to the question of competence, in a region which prima facie demands something of special insight, and also to prepare ourselves for the general line which we shall adopt; and it is this general line alone for which I can venture to claim attention and sympathy. It is nothing very new, unless in a certain thorough consistency; but I think it is important, and follows from and sums up our preceding argument, and solves many difficulties.

I will therefore say a word of preface about the education in beauty of the