The Science of Aesthetics; or, The Nature, Kinds, Laws, and Uses of Beauty

xvii, 434 pp. Green cloth boards. CONTENTS: Introduction: Method of Study; Book I. Nature of Beauty: Beauty in the Concrete--The Rainbow; Elements of Beauty; Beauty Objective; The Universality of Beauty; The Relativeness of Beauty; The Imagination; Aesthetic Science. Book II. Kinds of Beauty: Principle of Division; Gradations of Beauty; Ideal Beauty; Material Beauty; Formal Beauty. Book III. Laws of Beauty: Nature and Divisions; Laws of Ideal; Law of Material; Law of Form; Special Laws--Architecture; Special Laws--Landscape; Special Laws--Sculpture; Special Laws--Painting; Special Laws--Music; Special Laws--Discourse; Poetry; Interpretation of Beauty. Book IV. Relations of Beauty: Introductory View; The Relations of the Beautiful to the True and the Good; The Relations of Aesthetics to Logic and Ethics; The Uses of Beauty; The Uses of Aesthetics.