THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



inductive reason. After I have been 

 kicked several times by a mule I learn 

 that a mule is apt to kick. We "learn to 

 like" olives, and we learn to like Wagnerian 

 music; and I have seen New Englanders 

 who at first were disgusted with the land- 

 scape of Kansas, finally learn to like it as 

 well as I do. I know that this last illus- 

 trative example particularly is complicated 

 with other elements, but there is at the 

 bottom a certain quantity of beauty 

 realized through experience. In a some- 

 what different manner, yet in a manner 

 truly exemplifying the accumulation of 

 experience in aesthetic affairs, we learn 

 that blue and orange are agreeable com- 

 binations of color, while red and purple are 

 disagreeable; or we learn that Acan- 

 thopanax pentaphylla makes a better 

 group when combined with Rhus copallina 

 than when used with Van Houtt's Spirea. 



Thirdly, we know some things by sheer 

 power of deductive reason. The knowledge 

 which abstract reason gives us in the world 

 of truth has its analogue in the world of 

 beauty. Our knowledge that the angles 

 of a triangle are equal to two right angles 

 is independent of experience. So there 



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