XIV THE ÆSTHETIC VALUE OF TASTE 168 The Higher and Lower Senses—Bounty of Nature and Ecclesiastical Censorship—The Psychophysical Attributes—The Tendency to Adaptation—Spatial Attributes of Taste Qualities—Immediate Affective Value of Taste—Development in the Individual and the Race—The Imaginative Value of Taste—The Non-Social Character of the Lower Senses—The Unsystematic Relations of Taste Qualities—The Motive of Æsthetic Products. INDEX 197 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILLUSTRATIONS Diagram showing relations between the 40 taste qualities Sketch of the tongue 69 Diagram showing some of the various 88 courses which have been advocated for the taste fibers in man ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE SENSE OF TASTE CHAPTER I THE QUALITIES OF TASTE _The Taste Manifold_ THE casual observer would probably feel that any attempt to enumerate and arrange in a logical scheme the infinitude of tastes and flavors would be an impossible task. To him it might seem that nearly everything in the world possessed its own peculiar taste. Such an observer would also be likely to think it impossible and thankless to attempt to reduce to their necessary limits the various kinds of substance of which this infinitude of things is made up. But the chemist would readily be able to show him that the infinitude of substances consisted, as a matter of fact, only of various forms and combinations of less than one hundred “elements,” and that from these elements one could produce, by appropriate selection and apportionment, any one of the infinitude of substances.