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 .849 H. STANLEY $EVON$ The next stage of evolution is of very gre interest and importance. In the struggle for existence the early factors of survival were physical adaptation to environment, muscular strength and agility and the pleasantness of the reproductive wards sensitiveness of perception, intensity of feeling, and intelligence in deliberately activities; after- of power deciding actions, became powerful factors individuals, st the same tine that on feeling thus had intense became factors of race highly developed pleasurable feeling, of survival amongst the social reactions survival. Having in him nd the capacity of intelligence to dis- cover and remember what actions caused the pleasant sensations, man sensations beyond h8 their been led functional to repeat pleasant value, merely for the sake of the feeling (e.g., eating sweet-meats) and has gradually discovered s whole range of visual, auditory and factual period of experience sensations which for every brief excite the pleasant state of feeling. V. ery many of thee new kinds or cmbinstions of sensstmns, but by no mesus all, result from actions of an economic character, and consumption or use of some of perception is pleasant feeling in intensity and previously indifferent Thus arises aesthetic perception of visual capable of education, form man is capable of created by s prolonged in and of still to commodity. education so sensstioi is time, and require the The power that the increased sensations or unpleasant become pleasant. enjoynent. and auditory a8 the musical fundamentally Especially sensations in appreciation of sequence of sounds. dominated in all has the proved artistic Yet his reactions external stimuli by qualities inherited from the most remote ancestry, so that artistic forms are pleasing not only on account of variety of stimuli, but on account of their approximation to natural