I have broken up the "_Einleitung_," or Introduction proper, which is continuous in the original, into four chapters,[4] hoping that the arrangement of the discussion may be thus rendered easier to follow. The "_Eintheilung_," which forms my Chapter V., is a separate chapter in the original. The table of contents is translated from the original, excepting those portions of it which are enclosed in square brackets, [ ]. My literary notes are entirely borrowed from the late Mrs. F. C. Conybeare's translation of Scherer's "History of German Literature;" a work invaluable to the English student, whose gratitude must for long be saddened by the untimely death of the translator. CONTENTS. PAGE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE vii PREFATORY ESSAY BY THE TRANSLATOR xiii CHAPTER I. THE RANGE OF ÆSTHETIC DEFINED, AND SOME OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART REFUTED (1-25). [[Greek: a.] Æsthetic confined to Beauty of _Art_ 2 [Greek: b.] Does Art _merit_ Scientific Treatment? 5 [Greek: g.] Is Scientific Treatment _appropriate_ to Art? 8 [Greek: d.] Answer to [Greek: b.] 13 [Greek: e.] Answer to [Greek: g.]] 20 CHAPTER II. METHODS OF SCIENCE APPLICABLE TO BEAUTY AND ART (26-42). [1. Empirical Method--Art-scholarship 27 (_a_) Its Range 27 (_b_) It generates Rules and Theories 28 (_c_) The Rights of Genius 38 2. Abstract Reflection 40 3. The Philosophical Conception of Artistic Beauty, general notion of] 41 CHAPTER III. THE PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTION OF ARTISTIC BEAUTY, BEGINNING WITH CURRENT IDEAS OF ART (43-105). PART I.--The Work of Art as Made and as Sensuous 43-78 1. Work of Art as Product of Human Activity 48 [(_a_) Conscious Production by Rule 48 (_b_) Artistic Inspiration 50 (_c_) Dignity of Production by Man 54 (_d_) Man's Need to produce Works of Art] 57