Among the formative arts I would give the palm to painting: partly because it is the art of design, and, as such, the groundwork of all the other formative arts; partly because it can penetrate much further Those who have recommended the singing of hymns at family prayers have forgotten the amount of annoyance which they give to the general public by such noisy (and, as a rule, for that very reason, pharisaical) worship, for they compel their neighbours either to join in the singing or else abandon their meditations.