condition Music will develop completely new styles of its own no less than the other arts. And in our belief Music and Architecture, each in its widest sense, will form the most serious occupation of the greatest number of people. In this connection we may observe that Music is on the executive side largely dependent on co-operation, notwithstanding that on the creative side it is more, rather than less, individual than painting.
A word may be said about the Drama, connected as it is on one side with Music and on the other with Literature. It is again as to its execution 311 wholly a co-operative art, while its creation is necessarily subordinate to the possibilities of execution inherent in a given time and place. For the rest its production does not require the same amount of training as any other of the arts; and therefore could be more easily and pleasantly dealt with by a communal society working co-operatively.
Though the question of costume may seem a petty one, it has much to do with the pleasure of life. In the future the tyranny of convention will be abolished; reason and a sense of pleasure will rule. It must be remembered that bad costume, of which there are hardly any examples before the Tudor period, always either muffles up or caricatures the body; whereas good costume at once veils and indicates it. Another fault may be noted in all bad periods (as in the present), that an extreme difference is made between the garments of the sexes. It is not too much to hope that the future society which will revolutionise architecture, will not fail to do as much for costume, which is as necessary an adornment as architecture.
To turn to some other phases of life 312 under the new order. We believe that on no consideration will the dirt and squalor which now disgrace a manufactory or a railway station be tolerated. As things go this wretchedness of externals is unchallenged because, once more, it does not pay even to reduce the filth to a minimum. But, as we said before,