奈特论经济与生活，很有诗意呢
Living is an art:and art is more than a matter of a scientific technique, and the richness and value of life are largely bound up in the "more".In its reaction from the futility of medievalism and mystical speculation,the modern Western world has gone far to the other extreme.It loses much of the value of life through neglect of the imponderables and incommensurables ,and gets into a false conception of the character of social and individual problems.Our thinking about life values runs too much in terms of material prerequisites and costs . It is an exaggeration which may be useful to say that economic goods as a class are predominantly "necessary" rather than truly valuable.The importance of economic provision is chiefly that of a prerequisite to the enjoyment of the free goods of the world,the beauty of the natural scene,the intercourse of friends in "aimless" camaraderie,the appreciation and creation of art,discovery of truth and communion with one's own inner being and the Nature of Things.Civilization should look forward to a day when the material product of industrial activity shall become rather its by-product,and its primary significance shall be that of a sphere for creative self-expression and the development of a higher type of individual and of human fellowship.It ought to be the first aim of economic policy to reduce the importance of economic policy in life as a whole.So it ought to be the highest objective in the study of economics to hasten the day when the study and the practice of economy will recede into the background of men's thoughts,when food and shelter,and all provision for physical needs ,can be taken for granted without serious thought,when "production"and "consumption" and "distribution" shall cease from troubling and pass below the threshold of consciousness and the effort and planning of the mass of mankind may be mainly devoted to problems of beauty,truth,right human relations and cultural growth. ----- FRANK H.KNINGT
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