By Eli Siegel

Landmark essays by Eli Siegel on literary and art criticism, ethics, economics, human equality, history—having, writes Ellen Reiss in her introduction, “that great, kind, true way of seeing art, the past, earth, and the self of every human being which would become the philosophy Aesthetic Realism.”

“Mind needs nourishment, care and training all by itself….And…millions and millions of people from the beginning of the world…have not got this mind’s nourishment, care and training. Their lives were forced to be led so, to get food enough for their stomachs, was all that they could do….And I say that it is wrong, to say that any one’s mind is inferior, until it has been completely seen that it has been given all the nourishment, care and training that it needs or could get. And we cannot say that one mind, is, in the full sense of the word, better than another until both have been given conditions equally fitting to bring out their powers.”  —Eli Siegel, from The Modern Quarterly Beginnings of Aesthetic Realism

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