Every primitive society is characterized by a bald literalism shocking to the æsthetic sense of societies which represent a higher stage of culture.
Here I merely say that these were not considered works of art; they were reproduced not in the interests of the æsthetic sense, but wholly to stimulate the taste for immoral things.
The fact is, most of our enthusiasms and antipathies are the bastard offspring of a pure æsthetic sense and a permanent disposition or a transitory mood.
Thus, if you stir with your finger the water in which leeches are living, they will soon flock to the spot, showing that the telæsthetic sense is associated with an appreciation of direction.
In this case, however, the point to be specially noticed is that taste in aquatic animals becomes a telæsthetic sense, informing the organism of the presence of more or less distant food.
From the evidence which Darwin has collected, it appears to me impossible to doubt that an æsthetic sense is displayed by many birds, and not a few mammals.
In point of fact, such is certainly not the case, because the best evidence that we have of an æsthetic sense in animals is derived from birds, and not from mammals.
But if an æsthetic sense occurs in birds, we should expect, on a priori grounds, that it would probably be exercised with reference to the personal appearance of the sexes.
Sympathetic Motive of Birds: their Æsthetic Sense; their Capacity for Enjoyment.
Therefore we civilised people, living lives of mental stress and strain, try to increase the suggestive force of our surroundings and to provoke appetite by all devices calculated to stimulate the æsthetic sense.
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