the link between the two categories, embracing as it does, when complete, all the arts which appeal to the eye.
Architecture, which is above all an art of association, we believe must necessarily be the art of a society of co-operation, in which there will certainly be a tendency towards the absorption of small 308 buildings into big; and it must be remembered that of all the arts it gives most scope to the solace of labour by due ornament. Sculpture, as in past times, will be considered almost entirely a part of fine building, the highest expression of the beauty which turns a utilitarian building into a great artistic production.
Pictures again will surely be mostly used for the decoration of buildings which are specially public; the circumstances of a society free from chronic war, public, corporate, and private, cannot fail to affect this art largely, at least in its subjects, and probably will reduce its independent importance. The arts deduced from it, such as engraving, will be no doubt widespread and much used by persons in their private capacities.