How the sense of beauty in its simplest form — that is, the reception of a peculiar kind of pleasure from certain colours, forms, and sounds — was first developed in the mind of man and of the lower animals, is a very obscure subject. Proceedings - Էջ 164Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1883Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| 1876 - 828 էջ
...simplest form — that is, the reception of a peculiar kind of pleasure from certain colors, forma, and sounds — was first developed in the mind of...and of the lower animals is a very obscure subject There must be some fundamental cause in the constitution of the nervous system in each species." *... | |
| Thomas Suter Ackland - 1873 - 250 էջ
...the " Origin of Species," p. 159, Mr. Darwin does seem to assert this ; but he says in conclusion, " How the sense of beauty in its simplest form — that...and of the lower animals is a very obscure subject," p. 162. To Mr. Darwin, with his present views, it may well be obscure ; but it presents no obscurity... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1873 - 492 էջ
...transmitted to both sexes, instead of to the males alone. How the sense of beauty in its simplest form—that is, the reception of a peculiar kind of pleasure from certain colours, forms, and sounds—was first developed in the mind of man and of the lower animals, is a very obscure subject.... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 էջ
...transmitted to both sexes, instead of to the males alone. How the sense of beauty in its simplest furm — that is, the reception of a peculiar kind of pleasure...and of the lower animals, is a very obscure subject. The same sort of difficulty is presented, if we enquire how it is that certain flavours and odours... | |
| 1876 - 898 էջ
...taste for beautiful colors and for musical sounds runs through a large part of the animal kingdom." 8 " How the sense of beauty in its simplest form — that...reception of a peculiar kind of pleasure from certain colors, forms, and sounds — was first developed in the mind of man and of the lower animals is a... | |
| Grant Allen - 1879 - 316 էջ
...For the sense of beauty in its simplest form, as Mr. Darwin rightly puts it, is nothing more than " the reception of a peculiar kind of pleasure from certain colours, forms, and sounds." l Now we have seen reason to believe that the insect feels some slight pleasure in the perception of... | |
| Grant Allen - 1879 - 308 էջ
...For the sense of beauty in its simplest form, as Mr. Darwin rightly puts it, is nothing more than " the reception of a peculiar kind of pleasure from certain colours, forms, and sounds." 1 Now we have seen reason to believe that the insect feels some slight pleasure in the perception of... | |
| Lucy Crane - 1882 - 336 էջ
...all of them." " The sense of beauty," says Mr. Darwin, " in its simplest form is nothing more than the reception of a peculiar kind of pleasure from certain colours, forms, and sounds." All this does not help us much, and it is of no use, I think, to try and answer the question in the... | |
| George Frederick Wright - 1882 - 418 էջ
...beauty in its simplest form — 1 Origin of Species, pp. 159, 160. 2 See Origin of Species, pp. 160-162 that is, the reception of a peculiar kind of pleasure from certain colors, forms, and sounds — was first developed in the mind of man and of the lower animals is a... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1883 - 372 էջ
...46. { 16., pp. 275, 277. § Sensation and Intuition, p. 336. !l Ib., p. 349. a capacity for aesthetic and other pleasures.* " How the sense of beauty in...and of the lower animals is a very obscure subject ; " t but aesthetic impressions " are peculiarly susceptible of development by appropriate culture,... | |
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