[1] A good account of the meaning of art is to be found in Santayana's
_Reason in Art_, Chapters I-III.
[2] For this whole topic of the aesthetic interest, _cf._ H. R.
Marshall's _Pleasure, Pain, and Aesthetics_.
[3] For an interpretation of painting in terms of the perceptual
process, _cf._ B. Berenson's _Florentine Painters of the Renaissance_,
pp. 1-16; and _North Italian Painters of the Renaissance_, pp. 145-157.
[4] The best account of the emotions and instincts is to be found in
James's _Principles of Psychology_, Vol. II, Chapters XXIV, XXV.
[5] Walter Pater: _The Renaissance_, p. 140.
[6] Taine: _Op. cit._, pp. 112, 114-115, and _passim_.
[7] Pater: _Op. cit._, pp. 129-130; _cf._ the chapter on _Leonardo da
Vinci_, entire.
[8] Plato: _Republic_, Book III, p. 398, translated by Jowett. The
whole of Books III and X are interesting in this connection.
[9] In connection with the general topic of the moral criticism of art,
_cf._ Santayana's _Reason in Art_, Chapters IX-XI; also Ruskin's
_Lectures on Art_, Lectures II-IV.
[10] Aristotle: _Nicomachean Ethics_, Book X.
[11] _Cf._ the _Republic_, Book X.
[12] Arthur Benson: _Beside Still Waters_, pp. 138-139. _Cf._ also pp.
143-144.
[13] Pater: _Op. cit._, pp. 249, 250; _cf._ the Conclusion, passim.
[14] James: _Op. cit._, Vol. I, pp. 125-126.
[15] _Republic_; Book X, p. 606, translated by Jowett.
[16] _Ibid._, Book III, p. 399.
[17] Aristotle: _Politics_, Book VIII, Chapter V, translated by Jowett,
p. 252.
[18] Taine: _The Ideal in Art_, translated by J. Durand, pp. 42 _sq._
[19] Tolstoy: _What is Art?_ X, translated by Leo Wiener, p. 227.
[20] Arnold: _Culture and Anarchy_, pp. 37, 38. _Cf._ Chapter I,
_passim_.
[21] _Republic_, Book III, p. 401, translation by Jowett.
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CHAPTER VI
[1] This chapter is reprinted from the _Harvard Theological Review_ for
April, 1909.
[2] I have treated this matter more fully in my _Approach to
Philosophy_, Chapters III and IV. At the close of that book the reader
will find a selected bibliography of the subject.
[3] John Henry Newman: _Apologia pro Vita Sua_, p. 239. The whole book
is of interest in this connection.
[4] Munro and Sellery: _Mediaeval Civilization_, p. 69.
[5] _Fragments of Xenophanes_, in Burnet's _Early Greek Philosophy_, p.
115.
[6] Lucretius: _De Rerum Natura_, Book I, lines 1021-1028, translated
by Munro.
[7] _Isaiah_ 1:15-17.
[8] For a brief account of primitive religion, _cf._ J. B. Pratt's
_Psychology of Religious Belief_. For a fuller account, _cf._ F. B.
Jevons's _Introduction to the History of Religion_.
[9] Munro and Sellery: _Op. cit._, pp. 80, 75.
[10] A. H. Sayce: _Babylonians and Assyrians_, p. 253.
[11] A. Wiedemann: _Religion of the Ancient Egyptians_, p. 250.
[12] _Cf._ H. C. Warren's _Buddhism in Translation_.
[13] The reader will find a good exposition of mysticism in Royce's
_World and the Individual_, First Series, Lectures II, IV, V.
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