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Show ADMINISTRATIVE BEPORT LXXXI its growth from the beginning I think we shall find a steady development from emotional to intellectual art. We have yet to note that the pleasures obtained from dramatic activities are derived. There is in nature no distinct property on which pleasure is founded, but it is founded on the relative element of consciousness which is inference and which produces judgments. All our knowledge of the pleasures of dramatic entertainment are founded on judgments and are good or evil from the point of view which we have attained in the progress of culture. It needs but a single illustration to make this fact evident: The drama of the savage, dancing about the firelight which glints the trees of the surrounding forest, does not constitute an entertainment for which the civilized man longs and which he would sedulously promote. That which brings gladness in one stage, brings contempt in another. True, the ethnologist may be delighted to witness the wildwood scene and even to engage in its revelry; but his purpose would be not to dance for joy, but to dance for knowledge. ROMANCE Romance is the fine art next in logical order. The first form of romance is myth. We can not understand its nature without undei standing the cosmology with which it is associated. All tribes, savage and barbaric alike, have a cosmology based on a notion of seven worlds. This notion is developed through that phase of the evolution of language which Max Miiller has called a disease. Miiller's characterization, though more poetic than scientific, is yet a legitimate trope. In the evolution of language old words are used with new meanings, and often the old meanings fade, while the new meanings, which seem to be at variance with the etymological signification of the terms, become standard. Primitive languages absorb the entire assertion in one word; their words are holophrastic. A single word performs the offices of all the parts of speech, for parts of speech are yet undifferentiated; therefore a word is a complete sentence. When words are sentence words, the phenomena which men attempt to describe with them are expressed 19 ETH- 01 vi |