THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



them, approximately, in the following 

 terms: 



It is important to begin by showing, 

 as may be done by very simple kinder- 

 garten experiments, that the realm of the 

 beautiful is altogether divorced from the 

 realm of the true and the other realm of 

 the good. Everyone is in the habit of 

 considering evidences of fact, and of 

 rendering judgment as to what is true and 

 what untrue, though the majority of per- 

 sons are totally untrained in any method 

 of artistic criticism; that is, in the forma- 

 tion of judgments as to what is beautiful 

 and what is ugly. 



There are four ways in which men 

 arrive at a knowledge of facts in the world 

 of truth; and there are four corresponding 

 ways in which they arrive at a loiowledge 

 of beauty. 



First of all, either truth or beauty may 

 be recognized by a direct and immediate 

 reaction of the organism. A child touches 

 a hot stove, and immediately recognizes a 

 fact, namely, that the stove is hot. No 

 mental process is involved. An angle-worm 

 would recognize the same fact if it hap- 

 pened to touch the hot stove, and would 



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