ABSTRACT
The meaning of “being common to” has been explained in terms of “resemblance,” to be sure; but the meaning of “re-semblance” is hardly self-evident. If “beauty” were the name of a nature or form common to diverse beauties in fact, this common nature would be that in respect of which these beauties were resembling. Satisfaction is an ingredient in any felt situation that is beautiful. A satisfaction does not occur in a vacuum. One is satisfied by or with the qualities and relations which, together with that satisfaction, constitute an aesthetic situation. The traditional distinction between aesthetic materials, forms, and expression, would seem to serve the cause of clarity. The main explanation of the preservation of these colours is thus to be found in the fact that, with but few exceptions, their pigments were made from naturally occurring minerals. or from mineral substances.
