. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. y ex-ceptional capacity for perceiving and knowing majority of human kind are comparatively unde-veloped in this regard, and their capacity for happiness iscorrespondingly restricted. This is mainly because they ,do not habitually do and live the things that are beauti-ful. A fully developed aesthetic sense is not to be gainedby the mere spectator; he mus
. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. y ex-ceptional capacity for perceiving and knowing majority of human kind are comparatively unde-veloped in this regard, and their capacity for happiness iscorrespondingly restricted. This is mainly because they ,do not habitually do and live the things that are beauti-ful. A fully developed aesthetic sense is not to be gainedby the mere spectator; he must have a consciousness ofparticipation, and in some way he must express that con-sciousness. We cannot all be creative geniuses—poets,sculptors, painters, composers of music; but all of us whoare normal beings can learn to actively respond to theinfluences which they exert, especially the influence ofmusic. Young children usually are considered to be sim-ply little animals. But watch them in the presence ofsome powerful manifestation of beauty. What child One Hwndred Three An expression of pleasurable relaxation pervading the entire body—a com-plete reaction to influences that are pervasive in their sweetness and Dancing Bach to Arcady does not almost instantly respond, both physically andpsychically, to that masterpiece o£ Nature, a perfectmorning in June? The small boy tears off the hatedshoes and stockings and races with joyous whoops overthe cool greensward. The little girl shows her longingto follow him; she is only restrained by the conventionswith which so many mothers oppress the souls andbodies of their feminine offspring. But her breastheaves, her eyes sparkle: she lets herself go to the limitof the sense of freedom left in her, and now and thenthere is one whose actions declare her to be in open re-volt. She doesnt care! Let them call her a tomboyif they like! Off come her shoes and stockings, her hat,her apron—every article of clothing she can modestl
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