useless.

Simplicity of life, begetting simplicity of taste, that is, a love
for sweet and lofty things, is of all matters most necessary for the
birth of the new and better art we crave for; simplicity everywhere,
in the palace as well as in the cottage.

Still more is this necessary, cleanliness and decency everywhere, in
the cottage as well as in the palace: the lack of that is a serious
piece of MANNERS for us to correct: that lack and all the
inequalities of life, and the heaped-up thoughtlessness and disorder
of so many centuries that cause it: and as yet it is only a very
few men who have begun to think about a remedy for it in its widest
range: even in its narrower aspect, in the defacements of our big
towns by all that commerce brings with it, who heeds it? who tries
to control their squalor and hideousness? there is nothing but
thoughtlessness and recklessness in the matter: the helplessness of
people who don't live long enough to do a thing themselves, and have
not manliness and foresight enough to begin the work, and pass it on
to those that shall come after them.

Is money to be gathered? cut down the pleasant trees among the
houses, pull down ancient and venerable buildings for the money that
a few square yards of London dirt will fetch; blacken rivers, hide
the sun and poison the air with smoke and worse, and it's nobody's
business to see to it or mend it: that is all that modern commerce,
the counting-house forgetful of the workshop, will do for us herein.

And Science--we have loved her well, and followed her diligently,
what will she do? I fear she is so much in the pay of the counting-