“Of these five senses sight is held to be most precious and the best.... Hearing is a most excellent outward sense.... Taste is a necessary sense.... Touch, the last and most ignoble of the senses, yet of as great necessity as the others, and of as much pleasure.” Contemporary phraseology and convention are just as eloquent in the matter. There is common agreement that some of the senses, in their exercise or consequences, are ennobling, dignified, pure, and worthy; others, either in their exercise or consequences, are felt to be degrading, debasing, vile, and iniquitous. An individual who revels in impressions of sight and sound, and indulges to the utmost the raptures afforded by the tones, melodies, concords, the colors and their harmonies, and the elements of form, design, and arrangement, we are likely to find classified by his associates as “sensitive,” “temperamental,” “artistic.” But one who revels to the same or even much less degree in the unholy impressions of contact, temperature, smell, and taste is held to be “sensuous” rather than “sensitive,” “gluttonous” rather than “temperamental,” and “vicious” rather than “artistic.” The former pleasures minister to a “divine fire,” the latter only to “lust” and “appetite.” Similarly, we esteem in quite distinctive manner the workman whose craft consists in the preparation and arrangement of sights and sounds in pleasing elements, orders, and compositions. He is held to have “acquired merit,” however unsuccessful his labors, and receives warm social approbation. He is an “artist.” But the workman whose craft consists in the preparation and presentation of acceptable sensations of taste, smell, touch, and temperature, what of him? He is neither held to have “acquired merit” nor to deserve any enviable amount of social recognition. He is only a “cook,” a “chef,” or, at the most, a “chemist” or a “dietitian.” Only in the comic supplements is he ever an “artist.” Painting, for instance, is held to be an “art”; but cooking is only a “service.” The one is rewarded by distinction and eminence, the other, when rewarded at all, by wages.