the dilettanti. But if it be true that that thing is artistic which gives the greatest pleasure to the minds most fitted to understand it, and if the chief end of life is to seek pleasure, the conclusion follows that the chief aim of social workers should be to make society artistic. Viewed in this way, the word artistic obtains a much deeper meaning than when spoken at an afternoon tea concerning some elaborate piece of bric-a-brac.
Artistic, in the sense in which I wish to use it, (and I believe that it will be generally admitted that this is the true and best sense of the word), means possessing such a unity, and correlation of parts to the whole, as to give the greatest amount of pleasure possible. Incidentally this implies a similar artistic wholeness and power of appreciation on the part of the persons who come in contact with the object. It implies, that, if the greatest possible pleasure is to be derived, both
