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Show ESTHETOLOGY, OR THE SCIENCE OF ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO GIVE PLEASURE In previous reports the five grand classes of human activities have been set forth as those connected with pleasures, industries, institutions, languages, and opinions. These pentalogic activities give rise to five sciences, which have been designated as esthetology, technology, sociology, philology, and sophi-ology. In order that the nature of these sciences may be made clearer, it becomes necessary to consider them severally; and I now propose to define the science of esthetology by showing what is included therein as the subject- matter of the activities is classified. It should be kept in mind that the classification is general, and is equally applicable to primitive peoples like the American aborigines and to more advanced peoples. Therefore illustrations are drawn from higher culture as well as from lower. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS Qualities arise out of the properties of bodies when they are considered in relation to human purposes. To understand this declaration it is necessary to consider the essentials of properties and qualities and carefully to note the distinction between them. The essentials of the properties are unity, extension, speed, persistence, and consciousness, which under relations give rise to properties that can be measured, which are designated as quantities. These quantities are number, space, motion, time, and judgment. Number is many in one, and the enumeration of the many is the measuring of the number contained in the sum, which is a unity. Number, therefore, is many in one. LV |
