[580] within the limits of this special estate, be it the king, be it the beggar, and everything in between. Now these are what I could call economic^a will, or economic valuation, not in terms of prices but in terms of expressions of the meaning of life. So if you discuss these things, don't complain, with a kind of complaining sentimentality, that this bad materialistic^b interpretation of history^c devaluates all the wonderful high values which we have in our wonderful society-- don't say THIS, especially that it is atheistic^d and has many other moral ^efailures from the point of view of suburban bourgeoisie, but use your academic mind^f and criticize, not in terms of sentimental complaint about these bad people, but criticize in terms of logical analysis and show them what actually the concept^g of the economic means. And if you do this, then you also do something else: you show how RIGHT they are IN their analysis; that actually you cannot write a history of the artistic^h interpretation of the human face, in the Westernⁱ world, without continuous references to the economic foundation. I once have written an article, in a collective work called The Christian Answer (1945)--''The Analysis of Our Time''*--and to show the way in which the idea of personality^j (which I have discussed in the last hours) has developed, I added pictures: the personality in a man like Giotto, in a man like Titian, in a man like Rembrandt, and in a man like American 19th-century Sargent, showing the differences, not looking so much at the valuation or *The actual title is ''The World Situation,'' in the book edited by H. P. Van Dusen. Note that in later republication, the pictures are omitted.--Ed.