PROBLEMS CONCERNING HIGHER BEAUTY.

What is the cause that certain bodies seem beautiful, that our ears

listen with pleasure to rhythms judged beautiful, and that we love the

purely moral beauties? Does the beauty of all these objects derive

from some unique, immutable principle, or will we recognize some one

principle of beauty for the body, and some other for something else?

What then are these principles, if there are several? Or which is this

principle, if there is but one?

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