Publisher's Synopsis
This little work contains the central thoughts assembled for a course of addresses on the hypothesis and history of style given at Harvard School from 1892 to 1895. The main creativity I can claim is what may come about because of the endeavor to assemble the scattered commonplaces of feedback into a framework, under the motivation of a naturalistic brain science. I have contemplated truthfulness instead of oddity, and if any subject, with respect to occasion the magnificence of catastrophe, is displayed in another light, the change comprises just in the stricter application to a perplexing subject of the standards recognized to acquire in our basic judgements. My exertion all through has been to review those key stylish sentiments the deliberate expansion of which yields rational soundness of judgment and qualification of taste.
