How to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain
&gt; The general principle that governs taste is the association of ideas, and this, fortunately, can be most easily illustrated: “I like such a person because her voice puts me in mind of my mother’s. I like this walk because I was very happy the last time I was here with my sister. I think green is the prettiest of all colors; my father’s room is painted green, and it is very cheerful, and I have been very happy in that room, and besides, the grass is green in spring.”<p>This feels like an extraordinarily Modern view, in that it&#x27;s not suffering from the idea of an ideal standard of divine beauty embedded in the universe, but rather that it is discovered by the viewer and their emotional associations.<p>It&#x27;s also very pluralist, this advice to expose your child to the best examples of art from a variety of cultures.