46 love's meinie. 



result of those surrounding circumstances, 

 to-day, is that most Enghsh youths would 

 have more pleasure in looking at a locomotive 

 than at a swallow ; and that many English 

 philosophers would suppose the pleasure so 

 received to be through a new sense of beauty. 

 But the meaning of the word " beauty " in the 

 fine arts, and in classical literature, is properly 

 restricted to those very qualities in which the 

 locomotion of a swallow differs from that of 

 an engine. 



42. Not only from that of an engine ; but 

 also from that of animals in whose members 

 the mechanism is so complex as to give them 

 a resemblance to engines. The dart of the 

 common house - fly, for instance, in full 

 strength, is a more wonderful movement than 

 that of a swallow. The mechanism of it is 

 not only more minute, but the swiftness of the 

 action so much greater, that the vibration of 

 the wing is invisible. But though a schoolboy 

 might prefer the locomotive to the swallow, 

 he would not carry his admiration of finely 

 mechanical velocity into unqualified sympathy 

 withi the workmanship of the God of Ekron ; 

 and would generally suppose that flies were 



