Beauty and the Beast

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Excerpt from Beauty and the Beast: An Essay in Evolutionary AestheticWe have not Stayed to discuss, or even state, the many definitions of the Beautiful that have been given. Neither have we attempted to repte sent the contribution of countless writers to the problem. Our only object in this brief page of summary has been to indicate the changing trend of thought.The Greeks reared their philosophic system on an unstable foundation, because they looked on Beauty as mere imitation. For them Art mimics life as crudely as a company of strolling players at a country fair mimics the doings of the great. Art is dramatic rather than true.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.