Without preaching on any of the others, however, I take three of
the six instincts scheduled by Mr Holmes--the three which you
will allow to be almost purely imitative.
They are:
Acting,
Drawing, painting, modelling,
Dancing and singing.
Now let us turn to the very first page of Aristotle's "Poetics,"
and what do we read?
Epic poetry and Tragedy, Comedy also and dithyrambic poetry,
and the greater part of the music of the flute and of the
lyre, are all, in general, modes of imitation....
For as their are persons who represent a number of things
by colours and drawings, and others vocally, so it is with
the arts above mentioned. They all imitate by rhythm,
language, harmony, singly or combined.