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Forward, From the Editor
In the Renaissance, the princes held in highest regard, part and apart from military might, were the patrons of culture; sovereigns that cultivated rhetoric and the arts as an indication of their authority, wealth and reputation. Their neo-platonic beliefs held that a cultivated environment, with the constant exposure to beauty and conceptualizations of the ideal, could actually alter human behaviour for the better, bringing one quite literally (if you have even once stepped foot in a Renaissance church) closer to God.
Though Hart House is no princely court, I would like to think that continued patronage of the arts, through the hard work of the volunteers on the Review and the grateful support of the institution itself, will continue to manifest in the cultivation of a more beautiful and ideal version of our corner of the world.