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- W143978204 abstract "TnHE great world war calls upon us, more insistently than anything else has done before, to evaluate anew much of our heritage from the past. Age-old institutions can no longer justify themselves by their antiquity. The time has passed when the mere performance, however satisfactory, of a function formnerly valuable can be accepted as a substitute for present-day usefulness. We hold it to be our right to require of every custom, of every art, and of every organization a demonstration of its utility in our time and of itis ability to meet our needs. This does not mean that we have become materialists. Cultural values are just as important as they ever were. The demands of the human soul are not to be sacrificed to the desires of the body. But the soul values must be real, and not fictitious. Art, for example, must have something more to commend it than tradition. Old masters can no longer hold their places, unless they possess the merit of some supreme appeal to a universal sense of beauty (a test destined to remove many of them from their pedestals). Science, too, must be something more than scholasticism or a compendium of universal knowledge. Our schools must give us more than pedantry, and our churches more than ceremony. Although we do not intend to use a materialistic yard-stick for spiritual things, nevertheless we insist upon measuring them rigidly. Among the institutions which bake no bread, but minister only to the spirit, are museums, and these we now propose to examine. They have a respectable antiquity, but do they possess that which warrants the continuation of the expenditure of vast sums of money upon them.? Have they functions to perform of sufficient importance to justify their enormous costs? If they have a purpose which the modern world can accept, do they fulfil it in a degree corresponding to the energies devoted to them? Are their divridends in life-values a reasonable return from our investment? Do they show a surplus or a deficit, when their complete accounts are balanced? Do they pay? At the foundation of all museums are collections, and men" @default.
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- W143978204 title "THE PLACE OF THE MUSEUM IN OUR MODERN LIFE" @default.
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