ABSTRACT
The Spirit of the Age is not easy to place, ontologically or empirically and it is idle to suggest that creative effort must express its age, either because that cannot fail to happen, or because a new effort can create a new age. Heinrich Wolfflin, Principles of Art History, foreword to the 7th German edition. Quoted by E. H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, New York 1960. Wittgenstein expressed his sense both of the revolutionary break his later methods descry in philosophy, and of their relation to methods in aesthetics and ethics. Wittgenstein expressed his sense both of the revolutionary break his later methods descry in philosophy, and of their relation to methods in aesthetics and ethics. Reported by G. E. Moore, Wittgenstein's Lectures, reprinted in Moore's Philosophical Papers, London. Sancho's descendants would, by the eighteenth century, have risen to gentlemen, exer-cising distinction in a world which knew what was right, and not needing to make their tastes their own.
