I should like to thank Mr. Thomas Munro, editor of the
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, for permission
to reprint here that portion of chapter ii which ap-
peared earlier in the journal. I should like to record also
my thanks to publishers for permission to quote from
works of which they are the copyright holders: from
Emerson Complete Works and Journals, to Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston; from F. O. Matthiessen
American Renaissance, to Oxford University Press, New
York; from Vernon Louis Parrington Main Currents in
American Thought, to Harcourt, Brace and Company,
New York; and from Lorado Taft History of American
Sculpture, to The Macmillan Company, New York. I
should like to thank Professors E. H. Eby and D. D.
Griffith of the University of Washington for reading
various versions of the manuscript several times and for
making helpful comments. I should like to thank Mr.
Harold A. Small not only for pruning the manuscript
where it needed it, but also for contributing valuable
references in the notes to Thomas Aquinas, James Feni-
more Cooper, William Hogarth, and Francesco Milizia.
I should like finally to thank Carol my wife, and my
parents Sigrid and Charles F. Metzger, for the support,
moral and financial, that they have given to this, my
project.

C. R. M.

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