At the dawn of our lives, when the senses are fresh and gingase, when all the human being is awake in every part of her and the gloss of novelty shines on all surrounding objects - how many feelings are, but how fake and inaccurate are the judgments we are Form about things! I'm going to despair, I'm waiting to feel as intense pleasure from the most extraordinary achievements of the genius, as I felt at that age after some objects that my judgment of now, unhealthy, worthy of contempt. Even the smallest source of discharge is sufficient for the one with a too blood: His appetite is too intense to bring his taste or selective; And in all respects he shows as he / she is in love with himself: Molie Meum Levibus Cor East Violable Telis, ET Semper Cause East, Ego Semper Amem. Such a man can never be a refined judge; It will never be able to reach what the comic poet called a spectator. It will always be imperfectly appreciated if we just judge it according to its effects on people, unless we know the temperament and character of those people very well, their mentality. The most powerful effects of poetry and music have manifested itself and may still manifest themselves, where these arts are still in a primitive state, away from perfection. The uncultivated listener acts on the principles underlying these arts, even in their condition the least grinding; Although he is not quite skillful to perceive his defects.
But as the arts forwards to DezavirSire. The critique science advances with as great steps, and the discretion of those who judge is often diminished by the defects discovered even in the best-set compositions. Before abandoning this topic, I can not stop not mentioning an opinion shared by many people: that the taste would be a separate faculty of the mind, special judgment and imagination - a kind of instinct that we are trying to spontaneously sense and from First sight, without any previous reasoning, qualities or defects of a composition. Regarding imagination and feelings, I think it is true when it is said that reason is consulted too little; But in terms of matching, measurement, suitability to circumstances - in two words, whenever the chosen taste differs from the vulgar -, I am convinced that it operates understanding and only understanding; But in reality it does not always intervene suddenly - even on the contrary, - and when it happens, it is often far from being correct. People who compare with others prove a chosen taste, often get to change their early and hasty judges that their mind - through its aversion to a neutral attitude and indolecity - you are dead to form them. It is known good as the taste (no matter what it is) is perfectly performed as our judgment is improved, by widespread knowledge, through unspoiled attention to the subject of our contemplation, as well as by repeated exercise. The taste of those who reject these methods - although promptly in manifesting it - is PIN-dit of a great uncertainty; And the jet with which they express opinions are due to in-gimfers and prision, and not to any sudden illumination that in a single moment is dying all the darkness of their minds.
And those who cultivated that kind of knowledge that forms the object of taste, gradually, gradually, and through the usual, they reach not only a solidity, but also to a promptness of judgment, which is also in other ways through the same methods. At first, people are required to read the letter with the letter, then to syllabrate, but ultimately they read easily and quickly; The jet with which the word says does not constitute proof that the taste is a distinct faculty. In my opinion, no one has pursued a discussion about pure ration issues, without having noticed the rush with which the argumentation, the list of the foundations, the rise and removal of objections is carried out, drawing the conclusions from certain premises; promptness in general as high as approximate that we can assume that the taste is acting; And yet, in this area, only the simple reason must operate or be suspended as operating. To multiply the guiding principles for each manifestation would be a useless thing, and in great extent contrary philosophy. Sure, this discussion can be continued for a long time; But do not stretch the subject, must prescribe our limits, because what does not the subject do not branch up to infinity? Only the nature of our plan and the unitary view of which we look at the problem should end our searches.
* Note: Burke, Edmund -About sublime and beautiful, Meridian Publishing House, 1977