Beauty and the Beast: An Essay in Evolutionary AestheticMcDowall, Stewart Andrew
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Beauty and the Beast: An Essay in Evolutionary Aesthetic
McDowall, Stewart Andrew
Aesthetics
[11] Cf. the work of the psychoanalytic school, especially Jung’s
_Psychology of the Unconscious_ and Rivers’ _Dreams and Primitive
Culture_.
[12] Lyly’s _Campaspe_.
[13] G. Macdonald, _Phantastes_.
[14] _Evolution and Spiritual Life_ and _Evolution and the Doctrine of
the Trinity_.
[15] _Evolution and Spiritual Life._
[16] _Opp. citt. passim._
[17] _Evolution and the Doctrine of the Trinity._
[18] I make no apology for not entering here on any discussion of how
God can be Love. I have endeavoured to offer suggestions on this matter
in my earlier books, and especially in _Evolution and the Doctrine of
the Trinity_.
[19] _Evolution and the Doctrine of the Trinity_, ch. III.
[20] _Evolution and the Doctrine of the Trinity_, ch. III.
[21] _Ibid._ See also Strong, _The Origin of Consciousness_.
[22] Bosanquet, _History of Aesthetic_, p. 37.
[23] McDowall, _opp. citt._
[24] _Evolution and Spiritual Life._
[25] _Evolution and Spiritual Life_, ch. VI, and _Evolution and the
Doctrine of the Trinity_, ch. VI.
[26] Croce, _Logic_, p. 279.
[27] _Ibid._ p. 310.
[28] Croce, _Logic_, pp. 324-325.
[29] McDowall, _opp. citt._
[30] _The Psychology of the Unconscious._
[31] _Dreams and Primitive Culture._
[32] For the exact sense in which these words are used, and for their
implications in regard to God’s creative activity, see _Evolution and
the Need of Atonement_.
[33] A word may be said concerning the personal relationship of fear
and hate. Here in self-defence the ‘other’ is not regarded as in
personal relation to the person threatened, at all events in early
stages of development; he is as external as a flood or a precipice.
Nevertheless in fear and hate, when they have reached a high stage of
development, there is a feeling of personal relation. But only in one
sense can this relation be termed personal; the ‘other’ is recognised
as a person, but in concentrating our attention on the things in him we
fear and hate we concentrate it on his ‘otherness’--on his lack of any
but an external relation to us. There is nothing reciprocal; we refuse
to give or receive. It is this externality of relation that makes hate
and fear so poignant and so bitter.
[34] Cf. _Evolution and the Need of Atonement_, ch. IV. _et passim_.
[35] McDowall, _opp. citt. passim_.
[36] For detailed consideration of the nature of evolutionary process
in material conditions reference may be made to my earlier works, to
which the present essay constitutes a postscript.
[37] Even though there may be a mating-call.
[38] I believe that I am right in saying that it is not until the
Neolithic period that human (female) images are found, and some of
these are probably divinities, though Dr A. C. Haddon informs me that
there are Neolithic paintings of human beings on rocks in Spain which
presumably do not represent divinities.
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