It must therefore foster and support a form of education, and access to the arts and the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants. (4) Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. (3) An advanced civilization must not limit its efforts to science and technology alone, but must give full value and support to the other great branches of scholarly and cultural activity in order to achieve a better understanding of the past, a better analysis of the present, and a better view of the future. (2) The encouragement and support of national progress and scholarship in the humanities and the arts, while primarily a matter for private and local initiative, are also appropriate matters of concern to the Federal Government. (1) The arts and the humanities belong to all the people of the United States. The Congress finds and declares the following: This Act may be cited as the 'National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965'.

AN ACT To provide for the establishment of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities to promote progress and scholarship in the humanities and the arts in the United States, and for other purposes.īe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

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