New knowledge of beauty would reveal the ugliness of many satisfactions which we now offer to ourselves, and new love the defective character of many of our social relations.

Certain things would therefore leave off happening, would go; because the direction of desire had changed.

I do not wish to particularize, for this only means blurring the issue by putting forward one's own pet reforms.

But I cannot help pointing out that we shall never get spiritual values out of a society harried and tormented by economic pressure, or men and women whose whole attention is given up to the daily task of keeping alive.

This is not a political statement: it is a plain fact that we must face.