In [the symposium] I'll Take My Stand the main job of condemning the effects of industrialism on art fell to Donald Davidson. In his "A Mirror for Artists" he tried to answer the important question: "What is the industrial theory of the arts?" Following the example of Ruskin and Morris, Davidson attacked industrialism as a vicious process that both dirtied up the physical landscape and made man's life dull, mechanical, and mean. Conscious mainly of his own region, Davidson envisaged the South pillaged by a horde of cultural reformers, missionaries of the industrial North, arriving to prepare the land for bathtubs and flush toilets. "Much as the Red Cross mobilizes against disease," he complained in a sardonic passage, "the guardians of public taste can mobilize against bad art or lack of art; one visualizes caravans of art, manned by regiments of lecturers, rushed hastily to future epidemic centers...