People often talk as if there was an opposition between what is beautiful and what is useful. There is no opposition to beauty except ugliness. All things are either beautiful or ugly. Utility will always be on the side of the beautiful thing, because beautiful decoration is always an expression of the use you put a thing to and the value placed on it. No workman will beautifully decorate bad work, nor can you possibly get good handicraftsmen or workmen without having beautiful designs. You should be quite sure of that. If you have poor and worthless designs in any craft or trade, you will get poor and worthless workmen only. However, the minute you have noble and beautiful designs, then you get men of power and intellect and feeling to work for you. By having good designs, you will have workmen who work not merely with their hands but with their hearts and heads, too. Shoppers can often find handcrafted, painted dishware at a market. That the beauty of life is unimportant, I suppose few people would try to argue. And yet most civilized people act as if beauty were insignificant. In doing so, they wrong both themselves and those that are to come after them. For the beauty of art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave. It is an absolute necessity of life if we are meant to live as nature meant us–that is, unless we are content to be less than men. 3 Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. What characteristic of the text is the underlined sentence, and how does it connect ideas in the text? The underlined sentence is ________. It connects ideas in the text by ________.
1) an example of a supporting detail; summarizing the main idea
2) an example of a supporting detail; introducing a new idea
3) a topic sentence; summarizing the main idea
4) a topic sentence; introducing a new idea