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532 in accordance with these dual conditions. Thus, our joint or articulate feelings are made up differently from our auditory feelings, and our temperature feelings from those of touch. I could not in this short paper trace up each phase of our aesthetic feelings, and show precisely both to what outer and to what inner conditions they are due. I can only indicate general conditions. To this end we may first note that in so far as the conditions, outer and inner, of our aesthetic feelings correspond to those of any other sense, or class of senses, in that proportion will the make-up correspond to the make-up of the latter.

If, then, our above account of their origins be correct, pleasure, and also pain, in us ought to betray both certain characteristics resembling the make-up of our motor feelings and other characteristics more like those of our objective senses, — these which give us our ideas of outer things and objects. This ought to be so for pleasure, because pleasure has inherited characteristics of a motor make-up, and is now by its central functions intimately associated with the outer senses. And this ought to be so for pain, because pain, on account of the nearly universal distribution of its nerves in every muscle and organ of the body, is both eminently motor and eminently associative in its present functions.

How, from the associative functions and characteristics of pleasure and pain, we get our more objective and 'outer' make-up of aesthetic feelings, I think has now been as clearly indicated as in this short space could be expected. From these, made up with our other senses, we have the varied prettiness of every stretch of landscape; the delights or discords of its complicated colors; the grace or ugliness of its many outlines and objects; the catching melody or unpleasant grating of its sounds; the agreeable fragrance of its winds or flowers; the unpleasant nastiness of its muddy paths and ditches. How these mosaics of aesthetic feelings correspond psychologically with the similar mosaics of other feelings in combination with which they are woven; how they vary in men of different temperaments, and how they change within ourselves with varying moods and