This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...reason or their passions sufficient to maintain the ordinary correspondence of life. It appears, indeed, to be generally acknowledged that with regard to truth and falsehood there is something fixed. We find people in their disputes continually appealing to certain tests and standards which are allowed on all ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...reason or their passions sufficient to maintain the ordinary correspondence of life. It appears, indeed, to be generally acknowledged that with regard to truth and falsehood there is something fixed. We find people in their disputes continually appealing to certain tests and standards which are allowed on all sides, and are supposed to be established in our common nature. But there is not the same obvious concurrence in any uniform or settled principles which relate to taste. It is even commonly supposed that this delicate and aerial faculty which seems too volatile to endure even the chains of a definition cannot be properly tried by any test or regulated by any standard." This argument may be put more briefly as follows: --" With regard to a certain class of questions, we find disputants ' continually appealing to certain tests and standards which are allowed on all sides.' This is a proof that there is ' something fixed.1 With regard to another class, it is supposed that they cannot be ' tried by any test or regulated by standard, ' and there is not 'the same obvious concurrence in uniform or settled principles.' This is a proof that the latter opinion is erroneous." But though it suited Burke to say that taste is a word which seems to be too volatile to endure the chains of a definition, this excessive volatility is not usually attributed to it. Many have said, and all except the advocates of the science of taste have thought, that taste can be defined as a preference about which argument is impossible. The proverb, de gustibus non est disputandum, is in substance a definition, for every one understands that the gustibus are likings or preferences. The figurative use of the word taste is, in fact, one of the many pieces of evidence of the...
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A reading copy. Ex-library, with the usual markings, rebound, first 3 pages loose from binding, pages fragile, some chipped, age-darkened on outer and hinge edges. Black boards, green board portfolio protective case, [vi] 359 pp., unillustrated. Chapters include Art and science, Theory and practice, Realistic theory, and Artistic opinion, and Taste, Poetry and painting, Statuary-Architecture-Music. and Art and nature.
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