美不容易被衡量

美不容易被衡量。国民生产总值、每周的工资和财务损益表都反映不出美的价值。但所有这些本身都不是目的。它们是通向满意、快乐和美好生活的道路。美为实现这些终极目的发挥直接的促成作用。因此，美是我们真正国民收入的最重要的组成部分之一，不能因为统计学家无法计算它的价值而被忽略。

Beauty is not an easy thing to measure. It does not show up in the gross national product, in a weekly paycheck, or in profit-and-loss statements. But these things are not ends in themselves. They are a road to satisfaction and pleasure and the good life. Beauty makes its own direct contribution to these final ends. Therefore it is one of the most important components of our true national income, not to be left out simply because statisticians cannot calculate its worth.

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