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But I say, all the beauty
of our glorious country...
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is meaningless if its artistic
soul is to be stifled...
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by narrow-minded
and antiquated laws.
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Is it any wonder this country
has never produced...
:01:14
a Michelangelo, a Rembrandt,
a Picasso...
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when men like Osborn Tremain
are persecuted...
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for trying to bring beauty and
art to a culture-hungry public.
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Is it any wonder that the rest
of the artistic world...
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considers our country
a cultural desert,
:01:29
when true lovers of art,
like Osborn Tremain,
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are crucified on the
cross of ignorance?
:01:36
Is Osborn Tremain
to be martyred...
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for being a worshiper
at the shrine of beauty...
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and, through his
artistic publications,
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sharing this love
with a culture-starved public?
:01:48
How long is God-given beauty
to be strangled...
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by man-made laws?
:01:55
The spirits of the great poets of
antiquity stand next to Osborn Tremain,
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crying in his defense: "A thing
of beauty is a joy forever."
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"
wrote Keats.
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Can this court take it upon itself
tojudge what is beauty and art?
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In the face of such words as these,
I quote: "She walks in beauty...
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"like the night of cloudless
climes and starry skies.
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"And all that's best
of dark and bright...
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"meet in her aspect
and in her eyes,
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"thus, mellowed
to that tender light...
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which Heaven
to gaudy day denies."
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Unquote.
Lord Byron, 1821.
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Quote. "Every obscene, lewd or lascivious
filthy book, pamphlet, picture...
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"or other publication
of an indecent character...
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"is declared to be nonmailable matter
and shall not be conveyed in the mails...
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or delivered from any post
office or by any carrier. "
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Unquote.
U.S. Criminal Code, 1909.