ABSTRACT
Lucas Baker was one-time Supervisor of Drawing in the public schools of the city of Boston, working under Walter Smith, and was later associated with the art school that was linked with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It is evident, that, if it were easy to set down categorically the principles of beauty, it would not be so difficult to make beautiful objects by following them. Many philosophers have tried to define beauty; but they do not agree whether it is a thing, a principle, a process, a manifestation, or a combination: and it may be, after all, that there are many kinds and many degrees of beauty. To design beautiful things, the people must proceed upon the fundamental principles of beauty,-a method of arrangement and association, according to certain fixed rules; and these accord with certain psychological necessities of every cultivated mind. Ideas of beauty accompany and are co-ordinate with the desire to attain the perfect ideal.
