PSYCHOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED 



draw away from the unpleasant thing just 

 as the child would. An exactly parallel 

 experiment may be made in the realm of 

 the aesthetic. If several colored balls are 

 offered to a creeping infant, certain colors 

 will be chosen in preference to others. 

 The organism reacts immediately and 

 favorably toward these colors. There is 

 no reasoning process here, any more than in 

 determining that the stove is hot. A 

 moth will fly to the light, certain animals 

 will come to certain sounds, the dog howls 

 when the organ plays, the bull resents a 

 bright red color, while the colored coquette 

 at the cake-walk fits herself out with all 

 the red she can carry. In no such case is 

 there any reasoning about what is attractive 

 or repulsive, nor anything at all analogous 

 to reason. The animal, no matter what the 

 species, finds some sights, sounds, smells 

 agreeable and others disagreeable. Perhaps 

 it would be putting this into better terms to 

 say that certain sights, sounds, smells pro- 

 duce agreeable tensions in the body, but 

 in reality this does not let us much further 

 into the secret. 



Secondly, we learn by experience. 

 Experience is known metaphysically as 



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