Excerpt from The Philosophy of the Beautiful
A previous volume in this was devoted to the history of Series was devoted to the History of ?sthetic Theory.
That volume had to be issued under disadvantageous circumstances. It was written several years ago, and, when ready for the press, the Ms. was lost in a railway carriage, and never recovered. The book had to be entirely re-written. In consequence of this, the temptation to abandon the historical part of the subject, and confine oneself entirely to the constructive, was great; foi while the second form in which a theory is cast may often be better than the first, in the case of a historical outline it is rare that one can improve upon an original draft.
It was not my aim either in the first or the second treatment of the History - to trace the organic evolution of dogma from school to school. My purpose was to give an impartial account of the greater theories seriatim, along with an outline of the more important treatises, on the beautiful - or discussions of the subject - in a condensed form and in chronological order.
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