April 12th, 2022

"Our senses have become blunted by the cruelty of mechanical reproductions--the starkness of photography, the clatter of the phonograph, the crudity of diagrams. All such devices are infinitely useful in a thousand ways--but we must not confound with these devices with the fine arts, with poetry, music, dancing, and good conversation."

"Science cannot say a kind word, make a joke, or turn a tune."
--John Jay Chapman

**confound="To mix or blend, so as to occasion a mistake of one thing for another."

Art credit: Dancers in a Courtyard by Victor Eeckhout