ABSTRACT
§1. Having endeavoured to elucidate the first term in the phrase “expression of emotion”—expression—we must turn our attention to the second—emotion. In the first attempt we distinguished “expression,” as here used, from symbol, symptom, infection and communication. In the following we must try to meet two opposite criticisms: first that of those who urge that our definition is too wide since not all emotions can be beautifully expressed, and second that of those who urge that it is too narrow since beauty, natural or artificial, may be expressive of other mental states and activities than emotion. (A) The first objection, that the expression of some emotions cannot be beautiful, may rest on two grounds.
