道德之美的存在与任何其他美的形式一样清晰，也许那是我们可以找到如此生动的，有时是怪异的上帝在我们嘈杂的宗教解释中描述的。这是一个有趣的想法，因为这意味着音乐会可能是一种精神体验，是一幅世俗的绘画宗教偶像，一个迷人的面孔是一个过往的天使。
(Moral beauty existed as clearly as any other form of beauty and perhaps that was where we could find the God who was so vividly, and sometimes bizarrely, described in our noisy religious explanations. It was an intriguing thought, as it meant that a concert could be a spiritual experience, a secular painting a religious icon, a beguiling face a passing angel.)