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" An element which enters for very much into 

 our aesthetic appreciation of persons and things 

 is the simple liking or disliking for the marks 

 of human interference. 



"Many minds are so constituted that it is a 

 positive pleasure to them to see that human ef- 

 fort has been expended upon any thing, and a 

 sort of negative pain to perceive that there has 

 been no such human operation. This is quite 

 independent of any conception of beauty ; and 

 yet it is constantly confounded with ideas of 

 beauty, because few people take the trouble to 

 analyze the causes of their feelings. 



11 Since the rebellion against the artificialism 

 of the eighteenth century, the rebellion headed 

 by Rousseau and a host of writers and painters 

 down to our own times, there have been two 

 distinct parties, which may be called the natural- 

 ists and the artificialists, and even in the quiet 

 intercourse of private life, where there is not 

 any very eager partisanship on either side, we 

 may still distinguish the people who in a more 

 active state of controversy would have belonged 

 to one party or the other." 



