Apkil 



NOWLEDGE 



NIGHT SKY FOR APRIL (First Map of Pair), 

 Showing the heavens as they appear at the following honra : — 



April 3 at 10} o'clock. 

 April 7 at 10 o'clock. 



April 11 at 9i o'clock. 

 April 14 at Oi o'clock. 



April 18 at 9i o'clock. 

 April 22 at o'clock. 



the pure outline with impioua accessories of colour and of 

 shade ? Can we not prospectively triumph in hi3 denun- 

 ciation of unutterable woes upon a generation which will 

 neither understand nor emulite the calm, severe majesty 

 attained by their Pal<BDlithic ancestors 1 Yes, we must 

 found a sect. 



But, to avoid wa-ste of time, we can first assume some 

 rough practical answer to the question, " What is Beauty 1 " 

 We know, or think we know, beautiful oVijects when we fee 

 them ; and that, for the present, shall be enough. Leaving 

 entirely out of consideration the beauty of sound, of senti- 

 ment, of character, let us provisionally defioe beauty as that 

 quality, or assemblage of qualities, which pleases the eye ; 



But 



putting aside, for the present, the further question, 

 ivfuil eye t " 



Suppose, instead of pressing on in this direction, we 

 adopt the historical method, and ask, " How did beauty 

 come to exist f " Yet, even under this seeniingly modei-fc 

 query, lurks one of those assumptions which are apt to 

 persist in the most highly-developed intellects as rudiments 

 of a pre-scientific age, much as the human body retains 

 vestiges of a tail and a pointed ear. The assumption is 

 that beauty exists as something definite and objfctive j 

 something which might maintain its quality in the aV-isence 

 of eyes to see or mind to appreciate; something which, 

 at all time'', in all places, to all orders of intellect, must b& 



