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better have given names like Moloch honuiiis, but we have never 

 found any dubiety in the enthusiasm with which artists have 

 greeted these dehghtfuUy grotesque animals; and the makers of 

 bi*auty surely form the court of apjx'al for all such cases. 



When we say that all free-li\ing, fully formed, healthy living 



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Tw.. I)rrp s«M IVnn.itnlxIs. ( luinrlhi (A), and rinlx«llula (B). From si>ecimen8. 

 rhrv shi»\v rrsjirc tivciv terminal and distantly separated groups of 

 |>«»lvj>s. r.ijsed on lonj; stalks al>ove the »K)/.e in which the sterile base is 

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creatures are Ixautiful, we mean that they excite in the spectator 

 the characteristic kind of emotion which is called esthetic. The 

 thing of l^eauty is a joy for < ver. The esthetic emotion is distinctive; 

 it brings no satiety; it is annexed to particular qualities of shape, 

 colour, and movem* nt ; it grows as we share it with others; it grips 

 us as organisms, bcxlv and soul, and remains with us incarnate. 



