Beauty in a World of Ugliness - Dr John Crosby

This short excerpt (from a longer lecture given by the von Hildebrand Project with guest speaker Sir Roger Scruton) talks of the post modern society's increasing threat to the concept of beauty. Rampant materialism and consumerism means there is a diminishing space for the merely beautiful. Beauty for beauty's sake.
Here Dr John Crosby sets out the case for humanity exposing the fundamental differences between those who are able to craft or appreciate beauty and those who are unable or unwilling to do so:
"All beauty sings. Full abundant humanity. Those who are deeply moved by beauty are fully awakened. Aesthetes have a freedom of spirit, a capacity for that elevated existence. They are a fully alive person. Exuberance of a more abundant life. The beautiful thing is moved out of pragmatic utilitarian use."
"The mediocrity of certain persons, the philistine and the bourgeois does not want to be swept off his feet by lofty goods which are greater than himself. Resents beauty and sees it as excessive. The mediocre person inhabits a greatly diminished humanity. Small frame of reference."
The argument today for beauty is so compelling precisely because it is so undervalued by modern society.
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Can someone here provide me a citation for a "prosaic person" and scientific definition