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its growth from the boii'innino' I think we sliall liinl n steady 

 developineut iroin emotionnl to intellectual art. 



We have yet to note that the pleasures obtained t'nmi dra- 

 matic activities are derived. There is in nature no distinct 

 propertv on wliich pleasure is founded, but it is tbunded on 

 tlie relative element of consciousness which is inference and 

 which produces judgments. All our kn(_)wledge of the [deas- 

 ures of dramatic entertainment are founded on judgments 

 and ai'e good or evil from the point of view whicli we have 

 attained in the progress of culture. It needs hut a single 

 illustration to make this fact evident: The drama of tlie sav- 

 age, dancing about the tirelight which glinls the trees of the 

 surrounding forest, does not constitute an entertainment for 

 which the civilized man longs and which he would sedulously 

 promote. Tliat which brings gladness in one stage, brings con- 

 tempt in another. True, the ethnologist may be delighted to 

 witness the wildwood scene and even to engage in its revelry; 

 but his purpose would be not to dance for joy, but to dance 

 for knowledge. 



ROMANCE 



Romance is the fine art next in logical order. The first form 

 of romance is myth. We can not understand its nature with- 

 out undei standing the cosmology with wliich it is associated. 

 All tribes, savage and barl)aric alike, have a cosmolog\- based 

 on a notion of seven worlds. This notion is developed tln-ougli 

 that phase of the evolution of language which Max Miiller has 

 called a disease. Midler's characterization, though more })oetic 

 than scientitic, is yet a legitimate trope. In the evolution of 

 language old words are used with new meanings, and often the 

 old meanings fade, while the new meanings, which seem to be 

 at variance witli the etymological signihcation of the terms, 

 become standard. Priinitive languages al)sorb the entire asser- 

 tion in one word; their words are holophrastic. A single word 

 performs the offices of all the parts of speech, for parts of 

 speech are yet undifferentiated; therefore a word is a com- 

 plete sentence. When words are sentence words, the phe- 

 nomena which men attempt to describe with them are expressed 

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