Excerpt from The Quest of the BeautifulWitness Eve, and her lovely elder sister, Lilith. Lilith and her beauty are a legend we would not be with out, she is the glowing mystery that lies back of the beginning of the race. Lilith without beauty would be life without meaning, stars Without light.Eve, we feel, must have been beautiful or that lovely lost garden east of the sun and West of the moon would not have evolved her as its crowning glory. Envious, creeping Wisdom gliding along the apple branch to drive out beauty, so that men might care only for knowledge, would not have found her worthy of his hate.Beauty is the shimmering, high answer to the deep hunger of mortals, beauty of living, beauty that is mystery and poetry and faith, beauty of line and color.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.