æsthetics which is based upon pleasure. Holding pleasure to be a sensation, or looking upon it as an emotion exclusive of sensation, it is clearly impossible to identify with pleasure æsthetic effects which for the most part deal with what is recognisedly non-sensational, and with what must be classed apart among emotions, if it can be called emotional in any respect.
Having reached this position, the natural continuation of our argument seems to require us to show that æsthetic practice conforms with pleasure-pain laws. These laws have been only partially considered. We shall turn in the suc- ceeding chapters to their fuller discussion.
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Publication Information: Book Title: Pain, Pleasure, and Aesthetics: An Essay concerning the Psychology of Pain and Pleasure, with Special Reference to Aesthetics. Contributors: Henry Marshall Rutgers - author. Publisher: Macmillan. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1894. Page Number: 166.
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