Politics, Art, Religion : Page 279

The saying should not mean that there are no standards of taste, that one "taste" is as good as another. That is no more true than that one religion is as good as another. Art makes right reason and the will of God prevail at higher and at lower levels, more perfectly or less perfectly. Good taste shows a cultivated preference for art which fulfills this function most perfectly. This taste a good conversationalist should possess. Sometimes if his personal preference is contrary, he should at least recognize the better art. A person, for example, who knows better, but nevertheless insists that he himself likes Walt Whitman more than any other poet is an interesting conversational asset. But if he actually believed that Whitman is the greatest