The essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 31
atis different from the action of the child is to producethe imitations according to a different method. Nor canwe answer the question by saying that the childs actionsare natural and the womans unnatural. Very often, thatwhich most pleases us in the woman is the fact that heractions are similar in… … 4 THE ESSENTIALS OF AESTHETICS. In what now consists this difference in method? Is itnot in this? We know that a mature womans naturalinstincts would never prompt her to express herself inthe childs way; and that therefore her childish wordsand deeds, while expressions natural enough to a veryyoung…
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