"Dios" is of the awful mystery of the English "God." This
latter word does not designate an object at all, but a sentiment, a
psychosis, not to say a whole chapter of religious history. English
is remarkable for the intensity and variety of the colour of its
words. No language, I believe, has so many words specifically
poetic.

14 Curiously enough, common speech here reverses our use of
terms, because it looks at the matter from the practical instead of
from the aesthetic point of view, regarding (very unpsychologically)
the thought as the source of the image, not the image as the
source of the thought. People call the words the expression
of the thought: whereas for the observer, the hearer (and generally
for the speaker, too), the words are the datum and the thought is
their expressiveness -- that which they suggest.

INDEX

Achilles, 179, 187.
Aesthetic feeling, its importance, 1.
speculation, causes of its neglect, 2.
theory, its uses, 6, 7.
Aesthetics, Use of the word, 15.
Angels, 55, 182.
Apperception, 96 _et seq._
Arabic inscriptions as ornament, 195.
Architecture, Effects of Gothic, 165, 166.
governed by use, 161, 162.
Aristotelian forms, 156.
Aristotle, 174, 175, 288.
Associative process, 198 _et seq._
Augustine, Saint, quoted, 252.

Beauty a value, 14 _et seq._
as felt is indescribable, 267, 268.
a justification of things, 268, 269.
defined, 49 _et seq._
verbal definitions quoted, 14.
Beethoven, 43.
Breathing related to the sense of beauty, 56.
Burke, 124, note.
Byron, quoted, 136.
Byzantine architecture, 108, 109.

Calderon, 174.
Centaurs, 183, 256.
Character as an aesthetic form, 176 _et seq._
Characters, Ideal, 180 _et seq._
Charles V.'s palace at the Alhambra, 44.
Christ, the various ideas of his nature, 189.
Circle, its aesthetic quality, 89.
Classicism, French and English, 109.
Colonnades, 108.
Colour, 72 _et seq._
its analogy to other sensations, 74, 75.
possibility of an abstract art of colour, 75.
Comic, The, 245 _et seq._
Conscience, its representative character, 33, 34.
Cost as an element of effect, 211 _et seq._
Couplet, The, 108.
Criticism, Use of the word, 15.

Definite and indefinite, meaning of the terms, 138, note.
Degradation not what pleases in the comic, 247 _et seq._
Democracy, aesthetics of it, 109
Descartes, 16, 183.
Disinterestedness not the differentia of aesthetic pleasure,
37 _et seq._
Don Quixote,