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  FACT 
  OF 
  BEAUTY 
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  ualities, 
  and 
  perhaps 
  we 
  are 
  nearer 
  the 
  truth 
  in 
  saying 
  that 
  

   Technitella 
  thompsoni 
  says 
  to 
  itself, 
  in 
  a 
  quiet 
  way 
  of 
  its 
  

   own, 
  " 
  Anch' 
  io 
  sono 
  pittore 
  " 
  " 
  I 
  also 
  am 
  an 
  artist 
  ", 
  than 
  

   in 
  supposing 
  that 
  its 
  beautiful 
  architecture 
  is 
  describable 
  in 
  

   terms 
  of 
  surface-tension. 
  Perhaps 
  an 
  intermediate 
  view 
  is 
  

   truer 
  still. 
  

  

  The 
  artist 
  knows 
  of 
  the 
  emotion 
  that 
  rewards 
  formative 
  

   achievement, 
  and 
  we 
  have 
  ventured 
  the 
  suggestion 
  that 
  part 
  

   of 
  the 
  ordinary 
  man's 
  enjoyment 
  in 
  a 
  beautiful 
  work 
  of 
  ani- 
  

   mal 
  artifice 
  (or, 
  secondarily, 
  in 
  a 
  beautiful 
  organism 
  itself) 
  

   is 
  a 
  sympathetic 
  sharing 
  in 
  the 
  triumphant 
  mastery 
  of 
  mate- 
  

   rials. 
  The 
  same 
  general 
  idea 
  we 
  have 
  found 
  in 
  more 
  devel- 
  

   oped 
  expression 
  in 
  a 
  lecture 
  by 
  Dr. 
  P. 
  Chalmers 
  Mitchell 
  

   entitled 
  " 
  Science 
  and 
  Life 
  ". 
  From 
  this 
  we 
  would 
  quote 
  

   a 
  few 
  sentences. 
  Speaking 
  not 
  of 
  Nature 
  but 
  of 
  art, 
  he 
  

   says 
  : 
  " 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  doubt 
  but 
  that 
  the 
  creative 
  artist 
  is 
  a 
  supreme 
  

   example 
  of 
  the 
  exuberant 
  will 
  of 
  conscious 
  life 
  to 
  absorb, 
  

   comprehend, 
  transform 
  the 
  universe 
  into 
  itself, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  

   emotion 
  he 
  conveys 
  to 
  us 
  is 
  an 
  all-powerful 
  stimulus. 
  The 
  

   form 
  that 
  he 
  has 
  created 
  is 
  significant, 
  not 
  because 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  

   vision 
  of 
  abstract 
  relations, 
  or 
  of 
  reality, 
  or 
  of 
  truth, 
  but 
  

   because 
  it 
  has 
  laid 
  hold 
  of 
  more 
  of 
  the 
  external 
  world, 
  recast 
  

   it 
  in 
  categories 
  of 
  human 
  mind 
  and 
  the 
  human 
  senses 
  ' 
  

   (p. 
  18). 
  " 
  ^Esthetic 
  emotion 
  is 
  the 
  responsive 
  thrill 
  to 
  

   creation 
  realised, 
  and 
  life, 
  seeing 
  the 
  image 
  of 
  its 
  own 
  power, 
  

   knows 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  beautiful 
  ' 
  (p. 
  21). 
  

  

  10. 
  Evolution 
  of 
  ^Esthetic 
  Emotion. 
  

  

  In 
  his 
  Gifford 
  Lectures 
  (1915) 
  Mr. 
  Balfour 
  has 
  spoken 
  

   of 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  any 
  pedigree 
  for 
  aesthetic 
  emotions, 
  and 
  

   has 
  suggested 
  that 
  all 
  that 
  evolutionists 
  can 
  do 
  is 
  to 
  regard 
  

   them 
  as 
  chance 
  by-products. 
  ^Esthetic 
  emotions 
  have 
  opened 
  

  

  