﻿LECTUEE 
  VIII. 
  

   THE 
  FACT 
  OF 
  BEAUTY. 
  

  

  1. 
  A 
  Synoptic 
  View 
  of 
  Animate 
  Nature 
  Must 
  Include 
  the 
  Fact 
  

   of 
  the 
  Pervasiveness 
  of 
  Beauty. 
  2. 
  General 
  Characteristics 
  

   of 
  the 
  Esthetic 
  Emotion. 
  3. 
  Beauty 
  a 
  General 
  Quality 
  of 
  

   Animate 
  Nature. 
  4. 
  Theoretical 
  Objections 
  to 
  the 
  Thesis. 
  

   5. 
  Concrete 
  Objections. 
  6. 
  Factors 
  in 
  ^Esthetic 
  Delight. 
  

   7. 
  Aspects 
  of 
  Beauty 
  in 
  Animate 
  Nature. 
  8. 
  Biological 
  

   Significance 
  of 
  Beauty 
  to 
  the 
  Beautiful 
  Organisms 
  themselves. 
  

   9. 
  Beauty 
  of 
  Animal 
  Artifice. 
  10. 
  Evolution 
  of 
  ^Esthetic 
  

   Emotion. 
  11. 
  The 
  Significance 
  of 
  the 
  Pervasive 
  Beauty 
  of 
  

   Animate 
  Nature. 
  

  

  1. 
  A 
  Synoptic 
  View 
  of 
  Animate 
  Nature 
  Must 
  Include 
  

   the 
  Fact 
  of 
  the 
  Pervasiveness 
  of 
  Beauty. 
  

  

  IN 
  an 
  inquiry 
  into 
  the 
  significance 
  of 
  Animate 
  Nature, 
  

   there 
  is 
  no 
  getting 
  past 
  the 
  fact 
  of 
  Beauty. 
  Whatever 
  we 
  

   make 
  of 
  it, 
  the 
  Beauty 
  of 
  Nature 
  is 
  a 
  joy 
  for 
  ever 
  to 
  many, 
  

   not 
  only 
  to 
  the 
  cultured, 
  but 
  to 
  the 
  unsophisticated 
  who 
  

   never 
  heard 
  of 
  the 
  aesthetic 
  attitude. 
  Man's 
  contemplative 
  

   and 
  disinterested 
  delight 
  in 
  the 
  beautiful 
  is 
  well-nigh 
  the 
  

   best 
  of 
  him; 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  reasonable 
  and 
  verified 
  belief 
  that 
  

   we 
  get 
  at 
  something 
  in 
  this 
  way 
  which 
  can 
  be 
  reached 
  by 
  

   no 
  other, 
  certainly 
  not 
  by 
  scientific 
  analysis 
  or 
  by 
  logic. 
  

   There 
  are 
  curiously 
  few 
  general 
  affirmations 
  that 
  we 
  can 
  

   make 
  about 
  Nature; 
  one 
  is 
  that 
  Nature 
  is 
  in 
  great 
  part 
  

   intelligible 
  or 
  rationalisable, 
  and 
  another 
  is 
  that 
  Nature 
  

   is 
  in 
  greater 
  part 
  beautiful. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  our 
  object 
  in 
  these 
  lectures 
  to 
  indicate 
  what 
  contri- 
  

  

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