THE EXCESS-VALUE IN BEHAVIOUR i6i 



artifacts that man makes. (We ignore, of course, the baseness 

 of much of the artifacts resuhing from modern '' mass-pro- 

 duction," where the motive is fabrication for profit as well as, 

 and perhaps rather than, for use.) The house, dress, weapon, 

 tool, etc., has purpose and is designed to do something and 

 there is satisfaction in the adaptation, by fabrication, of the 

 thing to its purpose. Plainly, however, the amount of fabrica- 

 tion exceeds that necessary for mere utility and we call the 

 excess-product elegant, or ornamental. The satisfaction of the 

 adaptation and fabrication thus clearly sublimes into the feeling 

 of elegance which is, at least, a large ingredient in all beautiful 

 things made by man. 



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