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"To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven." -ancient Chinese proverb
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The Art of Cooking is Like Any other Art

ART AND CULTURE

Art is one of the noblest forms of human culture. The artistic gift is one of the rarest of endowments. While many have the power of artistic appreciation only a minority have the artistic touch and skill. The culture of a nation is infallibly revealed in the quality of its art and in the nature of its artistic life.
The Editor of The Hibbert Journal, Principal L.P. Jacks, had a great passage on " The Significance of Art." He said:" Art is the name for the most complete and most intense form of expression of the inner life of man. Its exercise compels a combination of the highest human faculties of conscience, intellect, imagination, feeling, and skill, and becomes successful in proportion as these faculties, are, on the one hand, strong and versatile, and, on the other, charged with the personal life and force of their possessor. When these are present in the highest degree the result of the artist's efforts is the creation of great, lovely and immortal works. The successful pursuit of the Fine Art demands, as its first condition, the concentration of faculties upon the matter in hand and the yielding up of the entire man to the artistic; and the more complete the self-surrender of the Artist, the nobler will be the result. In all great artistic work, therefore, we have a more perfect self-revelation of the worker"s soul than in any other type of human expression."
-John G. Bowran; taken from the book "Better than Gold" Edited by Clinton T. Howell and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers.