ABSTRACT
IT remains to make good the statement, already put forward in a preliminary way, that in the aesthetic contemplation of an object experience achieves the synthetic and full apprehension of reality. Historical note has shown not only that some such result is pointed to, as the necessary supplement to the outcome of reflection in its course up to the present, but also that this type of solution has been indicated in a sporadic way, notably by mystical writers and by those idealists who have valued the integrity of personality. The aesthetic experience is so rich in meaning that we are able to recognise no less than four suggestions of dualistic meaning whenever it is experienced, each contributing, however, to the immediacy of the whole effect. It is that the intrinsic aesthetic interest enters in and demands the revision of the data with a view to discovering their full and intrinsic meaning and ideal.
