“Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.”

—  Friedrich Schiller , book On the Aesthetic Education of Man

Letter 8
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

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