You cannot therefore say that Power, taken absolutely, is beautiful. You must add the qualification--Power used for the production of some good, is beautiful. This, then, would be the profitable--the cause or generator of good.[24] But the cause is different from its effect: the generator or father is different from the generated or son. The beautiful would, upon this view, be the cause of the good. But then the beautiful would be different from the good, and the good different from the beautiful? Who can admit this? It is obviously wrong: it is the most ridiculous theory which we have yet hit upon.[25] [Footnote 24: Plat. Hipp. Maj. 297 B.] [Footnote 25: Plat. Hipp. Maj. 297 D-E. [Greek: ei) oi(=o/n t' e)sti/n, e(kei/nôn ei)=nai (kinduneu/ei) geloio/teros tô=n prô/tôn.]] [Side-note: 3. The Beautiful is a variety of the Pleasurable--that which is received through the eye and the ear.] 3. The Beautiful is a particular variety of the agreeable or pleasurable: that which characterises those things which cause pleasure to us through sight and hearing. Thus the men, the ornaments, the works of painting or sculpture, upon which we look with admiration,[26] are called beautiful: also songs, music, poetry, fable, discourse, in like manner; nay even laws, customs, pursuits, which we consider beautiful, might be brought under the same head.[27] [Footnote 26: Plat. Hipp. Maj. 298 A-B.] [Footnote 27: Plat. Hipp. Maj. 298 D. Professor Bain observes:--"The eye and the ear are the great avenues to the mind for the æsthetic class of influences; the other senses are more or less in the monopolist interest. The blue sky, the green woods, and all the beauties of the landscape, can fill the vision of a countless throng of admirers. So with the pleasing sounds, &c." 'The Emotions and the Will.' ch. xiv. (The Æsthetic Emotions), sect. 2, p. 226, 3rd ed.] [Side-note: Objections to this last--What property is there common to both sight and hearing, which confers upon the pleasures of these two senses the exclusive privilege of being beautiful?]