It would indeed be a singular thing were the field of æsthetics the only one uninvaded by the scientific spirit of the time.
Experiments on the effect of anæsthetics and poisons.
What applies thus to æsthetics applies also to ethics.
Knowledge and art are justified by their influence on conduct; truth and beauty must ever guide us towards right living; and æsthetics are true or false according as they lead towards a higher or a lower standard of moral life.
Nevertheless, the ideals were there, but too far away in the region of thought and abstract æsthetics to be operative in action.
They are all most frightfully nervous about anæsthetics here, in all the hospitals, and have regular anæsthetists.
She is the one who is appointed to give anæsthetics in the hospital.
Anæsthetics have ensured that these operations may be performed without the slightest suspicion of pain, and with careful sympathetic surgery, pain may be absent throughout the whole of convalescence.
Anæsthetics and antiseptics have made this comparison possible and true.
Of the particular anæsthetics employed I am inclined to think that the possibility of such conditions arising is inversely proportionate to their strength, e.
It was this use of anæsthetics that gave rise to the rule of jurisprudence according to which partial or general insensibility was regarded as a certain sign of sorcery.
We have unfortunately lost the recipe for certain anæsthetics that were known in ancient times, some of which, such as the Memphis stone, appear to have been used in surgical operations.
It is told that the old poet Hauch, who was then Professor of Æsthetics at the University, was so much impressed by the young doctor's ability that he hoped to make him his successor.
As a matter of fact, however, the æsthetics of the subject does not seem to have entered the national mind, any more than have the hygienics of the same subject.
As for the æsthetics of conduct in Japan, enough is indicated by what has been said already concerning the æsthetics of speech.
Nor is it in accord with nature; it is a mere matter of æsthetics and ornament.
According to the ordinary use of the term, æsthetics has to do with art alone.
In the matter of conduct it is sometimes hard to draw the line between æsthetics and ethics, for they shade imperceptibly into one another; so much so that they are seen to be complementary rather than contradictory.
I here call attention to a familiar phenomenon of our own times, against which our æsthetics raises many objections.
And the future of æsthetics is a kind of ideology, or, as Renan expresses it, an identity with the sciences.
As local anæsthetics are of little practical value in the case of children, the surgeon must decide whether a general anæsthetic shall be used; for any nervousness on his part increases the danger of death upon the table.
Although local anæsthetics are of little practical value in children, their use is much preferred where adults are concerned.
It is Baudelaire the critic of æsthetics in whom we are interested.
He is reactionary in all that concerns modern æsthetics or the natural sciences.
Huysmans refused anæsthetics because he wished to suffer for his life of sin, above all suffer for his early writings.
Nearly the same story as with regard to anæsthetics has to be repeated for what are deemed so surely modern developments,--asepsis and antisepsis.
Anæsthetics were experimented with almost as zealously, during the latter half of the thirteenth century at least, as during the latter half of the nineteenth century.
In the East we have such ancient symbols as the five-clawed dragon of the Chinese empire and the chrysanthemum of the emperor of Japan.
I do not understand the limitation by which so many writers on æsthetics choose to confine themselves to the study of artistic principles as they are seen in this or that separate form of art.
In æsthetics do we surpass Phidias and Praxiteles, Raphael and Michael Angelo?
The end could no more justify bad means in æsthetics than in ethics; in fact, without the carefully studied means there could be no artistic result.
It is true that the Philistines do not come in and dispossess the autochthonic groups; these will not sell to them; but they have imagined doing on a sophisticated and expensive scale what the æsthetics have done simply and cheaply.
See Line) The æsthetics of Line must be comprehended and felt in its symbolism.
Nearly the whole study of æsthetics is in like manner either gratuitous or useless.
And in the whole passage is a brief embodiment for you of the ultimate fact that all æsthetics depend on the health of soul and body, and the proper exercise of both, not only through years, but generations.
A weaker professor of Æsthetics would have been discouraged by the monetary and other difficulties of his position and would have lost heart at the outset in front of the impenetrable blank wall of English philistinism and contempt.
Clearly our "Professor of Æsthetics and Critic of Art" is likely to have a doleful time of it in nineteenth century London.
Little Najib remains under the influence of anæsthetics for two days--for two days he is in a trance.
They are incorporated into Life by Time, and they grow in importance as our Æsthetics become more inutile, as our Religions begin to exude gum and pitch for commerce, instead of bearing fruits of Faith and Love and Magnanimity.
The same Sanskrit word Pramānāni, which in a book of æsthetics means proportions, in a book of logic means the proofs by which the truth of a proposition is ascertained.
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