Schiller said that beauty was essential to life because it is the fundamental characteristic of a moral human being. Why is that the case? Because what is good is also what is beautiful, and what is beautiful is also what is true. As Leibniz discovered:
“All beauty consists in a harmony and proportion; the beauty of minds, or of creatures who possess reason, is a proportion between reason and power, which in this life is also the foundation of the justice, the order, and the merits and even the form of the Republic, that each may understand what he is capable, and capable as much as he understands.” (Quoted from The Political Economy of the American Revolution, EIR, 1995, p. 215.)
