We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Bio: Alexander Bicknell, author, was an industrious littérateur of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, whose writings received received ridicule or faint praise in the Monthly Review. He died 22 August 1796 in St. Thomas's Hospital, London.