Aesthetics, or the Science of Beauty (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Aesthetics, or the Science of Beauty Trm following Lectures were written with a desire to supply the want of an exclusive and compact trea tise on the principles of taste. Though the literature of this subject is voluminous, there is no work which gives itself singly to a systematic statement of the nature of beauty, and of its primary and fundamental laws. Kames's Elements of Criticism, so long used in academic and collegiate instruction, contains matter which belongs to several distinct departments, and is not a complete or thorough presentation of the sub ject of taste, for which it has been chie¿y relied on. So many principles have been established in the department of beauty, so much of the mind's action in this direction is understood, as to entitle the sub ject to distinct consideration, and, at the risk of some ofi'ence, we have ventured to style our work Esthetics, or, The Science of Beauty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.