February 18, 2001 Helga Zepp LaRouche, Presidents Day ICLC Schiller Institute conference panel 3. Osceola Davis singing "This Little Light of Mine" trad. and William Warfield singing "Ol' Man River" by Kern and Hammerstein in both German and English opened the panel both accompanied by Sylvia Olden Lee. Amelia Boynton Robinson introduced the keynote speaker, Mrs. LaRouche who delivered a powerful attack on "Romanticism," which she identified as the mother of the "Cult of Ugliness." Romanticism, not what most people think of today: a candlelit dinner for two; the sun setting over the Pacific, etc. But, the ideology of the Roman Empire, which is where it gets its name. The insanity of the vox populi -- the manipulated masses who have been bought off by modern-day "bread-and-circuses" as were the rabble of ancient Rome. "The reason why people don't understand things and do not look through, is because they are affected by the disease of emotional Romanticism. People have lost the ability to look through, to differentiate between true morality, and that which only attempts to be morality. That has to do with the fact that they have lost the judgment, that Truth, Beauty, and the Good, and Reason, are one and the same thing." Counterposed to this, Zepp-LaRouche said, is the concept put forward by the German national poet Friedrich Schiller, who proved that "beauty is a necessary condition for mankind."