【設問】
Ⅴ [出典：Clive Bell, Civilization.]
Read the following passage and complete the English summary in your own words in the space provided on the separate answer sheet. The beginning of the summary is provided; you must complete it in 4-10 words. Do not use three or more consecutive words from this page.
Those who possess a sense of values will esteem art, thought, and knowledge for their own sakes, not for their possible utility. When I say for their own sakes, I mean, of course, as direct means to good states of mind which alone are good as ends. No one now imagines that a work of art lying in the fact that it can at any moment become a means to a state of mind of superlative excellence. Works of art being direct means to aesthetic ecstasy are direct means to good. And the disinterested pursuit and perception of scientific and philosophical truth, as they provide analogous states of emotional intensity, may be assigned to the same class. Knowledge, however, is not, properly speaking, a direct means to good; its action is remote. Knowledge is a food of infinite potential value which must be assimilated by the intellect and imagination before it can become a direct means to good states of mind. It is the nourishing quality in knowledge that people with a sense of values most esteem. What is peculiar to civilized people is, in the first place, that they are capable of recognizing the value of knowledge as a means to exquisite spiritual states, and, in the second, that they esteem this value above any remote, utilitarian virtue.
【解答例】
The difference between art appreciation and knowledge is [ that the former is directly valuable but the latter isn't ].
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