Goethe: "Through experience and wisdom the value of the morally beautiful and good entered the conscious mind, for evil revealed itself as such by its consequences, which caused the destruction of the happiness of the individual as well as of the whole, while by contrast that which was noble and right generated and strengthened both individual and universal happiness. Thus the morally beautiful could become articulate as a doctrine and spread throughout entire nations." From Conversations With Goethe by J.P. Eckermann; Translated by Gisela C. O'Brien; 1964, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., Inc. Pg. 105.
