James, not belabouring but this may put a smile on your face, from Frye's Words with Power, Being a Second Study of The Bible and Literature:
"In Russeau's early essay on whether the arts had improved or corrupted human life, and his following traits on the origin of inequality, it was suggested that civilization was full of the corruptions engendered by the ostentation and luxury of an over-privileged class. Whether or not art is man's nature, in Burke's phrase, the arts are full of what is profoundly unnatural."
