Spencer Heath Archive

Item 133

Penned writing by Heath on the back of a printed advice notice from E.F. Hutton & Co. Outline or titles for a talk or an article? Also a copy of Heath’s printed booklet (Sewanee edition), “The Inspiration of Beauty: Human Emergence into the Divine by Creative Artistry,” with a few penciled amendments for a new edition of Citadel, Market and Altar, where it appears as Chapter 38. Newly typed draft of the booklet text on six pages, incorporating the few changes noted above

1961?

New continents of thought

Mutuality of action

Animal to human: tribal to social

Christian technology

For the free heart of man holds no love so strong, no hope so high as the passion towards Beauty whose inspiration ever leads him on and on.

Self-realization

Natural science and Christian Doctrine as to Reality are fundamentally the same — the one finite and thus measurable, the other infinite — in the ascending order of Substance, Power and Eternity — mass, motion and time.¹³³

/A variant of the first full passage above is noted on the back cover of the booklet, “The Inspiration of Beauty,” which has a few penciled changes for printing in the next edition of Citadel, Market and Altar:/

“For the free heart of man knows no desire so strong, no love so high as the passion for Beauty whose inspiration lifts and leads him on and ever on.”