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Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.
— George Santayana
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker treats beauty as a promise that the inner self and the natural world can fit together. Meeting it suggests such harmony is possible, and that in turn gives reason to trust that goodness ultimately prevails. Beauty becomes a kind of evidence for hope.
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