ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the symbols without conceptual meaning. There are three main kinds of emotion called forth in this way by visible objects: the feeling of the beautiful, the sexual feeling, and the germinal feeling of religious awe, what Rudolf Otto has made it the fashion to call the numinous. Psychologically, therefore, there is a close analogy between this modern art which suggests the primitive world of savage peoples and what seems to us the affected archaism of some of the later Greek art in the Roman Empire; only in that case it was not the childishness of savage art which the sculptor wanted to suggest, but the early Greek art of some six or seven centuries before, when Greek art was still immature and stiff. Otto says, at a very early stage man began to embody this feeling of the numinous in definite intellectual conceptions.
