PSYCHOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED 



from one's own immediate experience the 

 feelings of beauty. It is better to love a 

 rag-time cake walk honestly and with one's 

 own heart than to admire Chopin because 

 someone says one ought. Nevertheless, the 

 critics should not be too hard on those who 

 accept aesthetic judgments on authority, 

 for if it were impossible to do just that the 

 critics would be of no further use in the 

 world. 



All these long theories may be rather 

 tiresome to one who is anxiously waiting 

 to hear something about landscape; and 

 besides that it does seem superfluous to 

 add another discussion of the psychology 

 of beauty to the hundreds already in print. 

 However, no one can consider thoughtfully 

 the question, what is beautiful in landscape, 

 without asking almost immediately the 

 other question, what is beauty itself in the 

 last analysis. The great number of answers 

 already proposed for this last question 

 would be more satisfactory if there was 

 more unanimity among them. And since 

 we can not easily take any one of them 

 as the basis for our study of landscape 

 beauty, it has seemed really necessary to 

 review the problem here. 



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