古质而今妍
From Simplicity to Variety
夫质以代兴，妍因俗易，虽书契之作，适以记言：而淳铋一迁，质文三变，驰驽沿革，物理常然。责能古不乖时，今不同弊，听谓“文质彬彬，然后君子”。何必易雕宫与穴处，反玉辂于椎轮者乎！
For simplicity arises onJy with the dawn of an epoch, and variety evolves after an age of practice: both are bom naturally of Time, but neither can be regarded as an artistic criterion,Indeed, characters were devised in the beginning simply to record men's speech, and not for proving or illustrating a theory. Yet underneath the flux of all things, the law of change rules supreme, causing all and every one of them to pa.ss through a numher of stages^comencing with a simple nutivity and ending in a profuse death—until in each ease a ful] cycle is completed: why then，should not obey this unversul law.Rarely,if ever, do we succeed in being as artles.s as the ancients without losing the .spirit of the age. or as modem as modern can be and yet be free from the faults of the time.Tliis is aptly put by the saying that the ideal of perfection consists in the successful fusing of the rich and the simple into a confluent harmony.For we need not, in our effort to be plain, give up palaces of choice carving in favour of dingy dens of imid, or go back fruni wheels d「l ine jade to heavy wooden ones.
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