ing any phase of life from the industrial basis of society.
Let us examine another social function and observe how near it comes to meeting the test which we have set up as artistic. Education, as well as "play" and "art," has been isolated from all social relations. The result has been painful to the child, as well as ineffectual in reaching the end of instruction. The "cramming" process, especially when it deals with dry facts isolated from all relation to the social whole, is now recognized to be a painful, and hence an injurious process to those who are subjected to it.
We have thus seen that owing to their isolation from vital social relations, neither art, education, nor even amusement, as now understood, gives pleasure, and this just because all these interests are defective in those relations toward society as a whole, which would make them truly artistic.
If we turn now to the actual social basis, the productive process, the creation of "goods," what do we see? Is there
