mentally affect the adjustment of the organism.
The statement will now be understood that beauty
is neither totally dependent upon the person who
experiences, nor upon the thing experienced; that
it is neither subjective nor objective, neither the
result of purely intellectual activity, nor a value
inherent in the object, but a relation between two
variables--the human organism and the object.
As such, it is just as real as an experience of color
or sound. What has been termed beauty does not
exist when there is no organism to experience it,
so that the enduring quality of the object is not an
essential though desirable characteristic of the
work of art. It is now necessary to describe more
fully the manner in which the organism reacts
in an æsthetic situation, and through its adjust-
ment experiences the pleasure of beauty. This
will be the subject of the next chapter.

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