Excerpt from Great Pictures as Moral Teachers: With Twenty Reproductions of Photographs From Originals of Painting and Sculpture, Each Accompanied by an Interpretation, Also an Introduction on the Use of Pictures in TeachingThe religious world is beginning to turn to art with a new Spirit. This may be due in part to the fact that undiscerning condemnation leads to indiscriminate ap proval. It is due even more to the ease with which the public now has access to the originals of great pictures, or may possess copies of them. As the printing-press ushered in the democracy of learning, the camera ushered in the democracy of art, and the pictures that were once found only in the great collections, or in the homes of the few, are now found everywhere in reproductions. The very multitude of pictures in the people's hands brings with it a great danger and produces a crying need, the need of careful selection and of educating the popular taste. The present work makes an attempt to do what it cah to meet this need.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.