This collection of essays is an aesthetic manifesto calling for a rebirth of romantic art and a systematic description of what is dysfunctional about modern aesthetics.
They are the arguments that kings have made for enslaving the people in all ages of the world. You will find that all the arguments in favor of king-craft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden.