As a matter of fact sculpture
is always part of an architectural conception. And since churches are
all museum stuff, since industry is our business, now, then let us make
our places of industry our art--our factory-area our Parthenon, ECCO!'
Ursula pondered.
'I suppose,' she said, 'there is no NEED for our great works to be so
hideous.'
Instantly he broke into motion.
'There you are!' he cried, 'there you are! There is not only NO NEED
for our places of work to be ugly, but their ugliness ruins the work,
in the end. Men will not go on submitting to such intolerable ugliness.
In the end it will hurt too much, and they will wither because of it.
And this will wither the WORK as well. They will think the work itself
is ugly: the machines, the very act of labour. Whereas the machinery
and the acts of labour are extremely, maddeningly beautiful. But this
will be the end of our civilisation, when people will not work because
work has become so intolerable to their senses, it nauseates them too
much, they would rather starve.
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