I will dwell a moment on this latter point. The Idea of the Good conjoined with affection is called _enthusiasm_. This state of mind seems to be sublime, to the extent that we commonly assert that nothing great could be done without it. Now every affection[55] is blind, either in the choice of its purpose, or, if this be supplied by Reason, in its accomplishment; for it is a mental movement which makes it impossible to exercise a free deliberation about fundamental propositions so as to determine ourselves thereby. It can therefore in no way deserve the approval of the Reason. Nevertheless, aesthetically, enthusiasm is sublime, because it is a tension of forces produced by Ideas, which give an impulse to the mind, that operates far more powerfully and lastingly than the impulse arising from sensible representations. But (which seems strange) the _absence of affection_ (_apatheia, phlegma in significatu bono_) in a mind that vigorously follows its unalterable principles is sublime, and in a far preferable way, because it has also on its side the satisfaction of pure Reason.[56] It is only a mental state of this kind that is called noble; and this expression is subsequently applied to things, _e.g._ a building, a garment, literary style, bodily presence, etc., when these do not so much arouse _astonishment_ (the affection produced by the representation of novelty exceeding our expectations), as _admiration_ (astonishment that does not cease when the novelty disappears); and this is the case when Ideas agree in their presentation undesignedly and artlessly with the aesthetical satisfaction.