in a work of art, judged as art, are artistic qualities: judged as a means to good, no other qualities are worth considering; for there are no qualities of greater moral value than artistic qualities, since there is no greater means to good than art. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 5: "An Essay in Aesthetics," by Roger Fry: _The New Quarterly_, No. 6, vol. ii.] [Footnote 6: McTaggart: _Some Dogmas of Religion_.] [Footnote 7: I am aware that there are men of science who preserve an open mind as to the reality of the physical universe, and recognise that what is known as "the scientific hypothesis" leaves out of account just those things that seem to us most real. Doubtless these are the true men of science; they are not the common ones.] [Footnote 8: I should not have expected the wars of so-called religion or the Puritan revolution to have awakened in men a sense of the emotional significance of the universe, and I should be a good deal surprised if Sir Edward Carson's agitation were to produce in the North-East of Ireland a crop of first-rate formal expression.] [Footnote 9: Formerly he held that inanimate beauty also was good in itself. But this tenet, I am glad to learn, he has discarded.] III THE CHRISTIAN SLOPE I. THE RISE OF CHRISTIAN ART II. GREATNESS AND DECLINE III. THE CLASSICAL RENAISSANCE AND ITS DISEASES IV. ALID EX ALIO [Illustration: _Photo, Alinari_ BYZANTINE MOSAIC, SIXTH CENTURY _S. Vitale, Ravenna_] I THE RISE OF CHRISTIAN ART