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Beauty and the Beast
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Beauty and the Beast
AN ESSAY
IN
EVOLUTIONARY AESTHETIC
BY
STEWART A. McDOWALL, B.D.
Chaplain and Assistant Master at Winchester College
Author of _Evolution and the Need of Atonement_,
_Evolution and Spiritual Life_, _Evolution and
the Doctrine of the Trinity_, _etc._
CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1920
For verily all men by nature were but vain who had no perception
of God, and from the good things that are seen they gained not
power to know him that is, neither by giving heed to the works
did they recognise the artificer; but either fire, or wind, or
swift air, or circling stars, or raging water, or luminaries of
heaven, they thought to be gods that rule the world. And if it was
through delight in their beauty that they took them to be gods,
let them know how much better than these is their Sovereign Lord;
for the first author of beauty created them: but if it was through
astonishment at their power and influence, let them understand from
them how much more powerful is he that formed them; for from the
greatness of the beauty even of created things in like proportion
does man form the image of their first maker. But yet for these
men there is but small blame, for they too peradventure do but go
astray while they are seeking God and desiring to find him. For
living among his works they make diligent search, and they yield
themselves up to sight, because the things that they look upon are
beautiful. But again even they are not to be excused. For if they
had power to know so much, that they should be able to explore
the course of things, how is it that they did not sooner find the
Sovereign Lord of these his works?
Wisdom xiii. 1-9.
PREFACE
I wish to take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to Mrs R.
B. Goodden and Mr R. M. Y. Gleadowe for the help they have given me
in writing this book. With Mrs Goodden the theory was discussed point
by point, and her criticisms and suggestions are largely responsible
for the final shaping of the argument, as well as for an important
development of the theory. To Mr Gleadowe I am indebted for some useful
hints, which led to a partial rearrangement of the material, by which
the form of the book has been greatly improved.
S. A. MCD.
WINTON,
_October 1919_.
CONTENTS
PAGE
INTRODUCTION 1
PART I. THE THEORY 17