ABSTRACT
Let us next examine the claims of the Emotionalist. Works of art, it has been held, are those works which are produced under stress of emotion. The first consequence of such a view is that war poetry, the poetry of school-girls, and not a little religious verse is thereby rendered an object of serious interest. If, instead, we chose as works of art those objects which, XI, evoke some emotion in their beholders, we have (Dentists' Drills) a similarly heterogeneous collection of stimulants, with no particular reason adduced why emotion is held to be desirable. If it is said that Art is what causes desirable emotions we find our selves again in the familiar field of the moralist.
