. Expression defined 192
Sec. 49. The associative process 198
Sec. 50. Kinds of value in the second term 201
Sec. 51. Aesthetic value in the second term 205
Sec. 52. Practical value in the same 208
Sec. 53. Cost as an element of effect 211
Sec. 54. The expression of economy and fitness 214
Sec. 55. The authority of morals over aesthetics 218
Sec. 56. Negative values in the second term 221
Sec. 57. Influence of the first term in the pleasing expression of evil 226
Sec. 58. Mixture of other expressions, including that of truth 228
Sec. 59. The liberation of self 233
Sec. 60. The sublime independent of the expression of evil 239
Sec. 61. The comic 245
Sec. 62. Wit 250
Sec. 63. Humour 253
Sec. 64. The grotesque 256
Sec. 65. The possibility of finite perfection 258
Sec. 66. The stability of the ideal 263

Sec. 67. Conclusion 266-270
Footnotes
Index 271-275

PREFACE

This little work contains the chief ideas gathered together for a
course of lectures on the theory and history of aesthetics given at
Harvard College from 1892 to 1895. The only originality I can
claim is that which may result from the attempt to put together the
scattered commonplaces of criticism into a system, under the
inspiration of a naturalistic psychology. I have studied sincerity
rather than novelty, and if any subject, as for instance the
excellence of tragedy, is presented in a new light, the change
consists only in the stricter application to a complex subject of the
principles acknowledged to obtain in our simple judgments. My
effort throughout has been to recall those fundamental aesthetic
feelings the orderly extension of which yields sanity of judgment
and distinction of taste.

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