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such a sort as to arouse in us the opposite 

 feelings we call ugly. But the beauty and 

 the ugliness are not parts of the things ; 

 they are merely human modes of regarding 

 some among their attributes. Wherever in 

 nature we find pure colour, symmetrical 

 form, and intricate variety of pattern, we 

 imagine to ourselves that nature designs the 

 object to be beautiful. When we trace these 

 peculiarities to their origin, however, we find 

 that each of them owes its occurrence to 

 some special fact in the history of the ob- 

 ject ; and we are forced to conclude that the 

 notion of intentional design has been read 

 into it by human analogies. All nature is 

 beautiful, and most beautiful for those in 

 whom the sense of beauty is most highly 

 developed ; but it is not beautiful at all 

 except to those whose own eyes and emo- 

 tions are fitted to perceive its beauty. 



