ABSTRACT
§1. In the last chapter an objection to the definition of beauty as the expression of emotion was cited to the effect that art, and perhaps nature, may be beautiful through the expression of other mental states and activities. In distinguishing emotions from sensations I have implied that the latter are not æsthetically expressible. The remaining faculties traditionally recognized are thought and will. It has been granted that no concrete experience of a sane human mind can consist of any one of these in pure abstraction from the others. It remains to ask whether in an æsthetic experience we may be predominantly concerned with the expression of the intellectual or conative element of the whole activity expressed, or always with the emotional.
