It was said that the idea of utility or the fact that a part is well made up to correspond to the purpose for which it was created is the basis of beauty or even the beauty itself. (Dara did not exist. This opinion would have been impossible that the doctrine of the proportion had been maintained for time; the world would be bored to hear about some measures that did not lead to anything, nor a natural principle, not even adequacy; It insists that not only the objects made by man's hand, but natural ones are the beauty of the beauty of the parties to their various goals. But I fear that this theory is very good, but it does not rely on enough experience. Because on this principle , the rite of the pig as a till wood cut, with the hard zgircy at the end, with small eyes immersed in fat and all the headache, so well adapted to the purposes of the first and scoring in Earth, would mean to be particularly beautiful. The large bag that is at the pelican beak, a particularly useful thing for that animal, should be beautiful in our eyes. The hedgehog, so well appointed against any attacks through a Tepi Plates should be considered as a great elegance being.
Few are the animals whose mandrels are more suitable with their uses than the monkey: it has the hands of a man at the end of the sprinted mads of an animal; It is wonderfully made up to run, jump, grab and climb; And yet, few animals seem to people so bad. (I do not need to insist on the elephant's trumpet, which uses so many things that do not contribute little to his beauty. What is good the wolf to run and jump. What admirable the lion is endowed to fight And yet, who could say that the elephant, the wolf and the lion are beautiful animals? I think no one can say that the shape of man's feet is just as well adapted to the running like that of a horse, dog, deer or other beings; at least as Infall things are not like that. And yet, I think a beautiful man of man competes in beauty all this. If the adequacy of the shapes constituted the beauty of their shape, their use will only gain beauty; although things are true, in Regarding other principles, they do not always.
A bird in flight is not as beautiful as when it stays on a branched, on the contrary, many domestic birds that do not fly more at all are not less beautiful because of that; However, birds differ as much as the form of animals and people that the principle of suitability can not say that they are beautiful, but only thinking that their parties have been entirely intended for other purposes. I have never seen a paun flying. And yet, a long time before thinking that his crying could be destined for the flight, I was impressed by the special beauty that raises this bird above many of the world's best flyers; This, though, I was seeing, his way of living resembles the pig with which he cohabits in Ograda. The same things can be said about cocks and hens; After hatching seems to be made to fly; By the way of moving do not differ too far from people and animals.) But let's leave these examples removed; If the beauty of our own species were linked to utility, men would be considered more beautiful than women, and the power of agility would be considered as the only beauties. But to call the beauty power, have only one term for the qualities of Venus and Hercules, so special in almost all respects, is undoubtedly a great confusion or a wrong use of words. The cause of this confusion probably lies in the fact that we often see that parts of the body of people and animals are at the same time not only very beautiful, but also well suited to their goals; We are thus deceived by a sophistry that makes us interpret as a result of something that is only an auxiliary, concomitant trait; This is the sophistry of the musta that has imagined a cloud of dust because it is on the carriage that actually stirred: stomach, plin II, liver, and other organs are particularly well suited to their goals, yet they are far away. Being beautiful, instead, there are very beautiful things in which it is impossible to discover any practical use.
To be honest, when we look some beautiful eyes, a well-contoured mouth or an elegant foot, we think that I am excellently made up to see, mimic or flee? What do flowers use, the most beautiful in the vegetable world? It is true that in its infinite goodness and wisdom, the top has harassed beauty of useful things; It does not demonstrate that utility and beauty notions are identical or at least to depend on each other. When I said that proportion and suitability have no connection with beauty, I did not mean that they have no value or should be neglected in artworks. Art works have their own sphere of their power in which they produce their full effects. Whenever the creator's wisdom wanted to be impressed by something. This "sophism" is assigned by Bacoti to Esop, but it is actually fabula no.
16 of Laurentius Abstemius (Lorenzo Bevilaqua, e. 1500): "Biting quae qttadriqis insui-dense pulverem was dicechat". (About the bite climbed in the quadriga who said she was staring dust. If Burke read Abstemius (and not just on bacon) his source could have been a very familiar manual Phrygis Fabulae ... He did not entrusted the fulfillment of the plan or the weak and unsafe powers of our minds, but endowed that with attributes and properties that prevent understanding and even will, which, exercising on the senses and imagination conquering the soul before understanding is able to join or be oppose. Through long deductions and many studies we discover the wisdom of creation in his works; when we discover it, the effect is very different (not only in do-in-mode mode, but also in its own nature) of what weighs us without any preparation from the sublime or beautiful . What different is the satisfaction of an anatomist that discovers the uses of muscles and skin, excellent formation of some for different body movements and wonderful texture of the other which is at the same time a coat, an input surface as a do-exit; The different Со is this satisfaction with the feeling of Caro, it contains the usual man when he sees a smooth and velvety skin, as well as any other part of the body that does not ask for a correct effort to be admired. In the first case, we think at COL do up with admiration and praise, although the object that causing it can be odious and disgusting; This effect often impresses us with the imagination that it does not stir. If we do not worry about how it is made: we need a strong effort of reason to get rid of the objects itself so we can consider detaching the wisdom Re has invented a must.
Of powerful. The DO effect proportion and suitability, at least in charge in Caro, derives from a simple contemplation of the work itself, produces approval, rational understanding, but not delight, or a sense of the same fol. When we examine the machinery of a watch, when we come to know what every part is in it. We can be pleased the way each wheel fits the whole egg, but we are not enthusiastic as a beautiful object; But look at work on a work on a gravel, who does not think only too little about the practical benefit of his work and we will find that we are more impressed by the beauty of the clock than the perfection of the clock, even if it were a masterpiece of Graham in beauty , as I said, the effect precedes any knowledge of practical utility; To judge proportion, we need to know the purpose of which every object is intended. Proportion varies depending on purpose. Thus, the proportion of a tower differs from that of a house; another is the proportion of a gallery, a corridor or room. To judge their proportions, we need to find out which they have been intended.
The common sense and experience, working in the mine, teaches us what it is done in every artwork. We are rational facts and in Loatc our works should be in mind their purpose and purpose; The satisfaction of a passion, as it is innocence, must pass second. Here is the real power of matches and proportion; They impress the reason that judges, approves the work and recognize it. The feelings as well as the imagination that smarts do not have what they are looking for. An empty room, with walls without adornments and the unknamed ceiling we do not like it as proportional. At best, we can stir a cold approval. A much less proportional camera, decorated with elegant ornaments, mirrors and furniture will make his imagination revive against rationale; The camera will like MIDI more than the simple proportions of the first room that reason has approved so hard to respond by the miracle to which it was intended.
What I said even before a proportion, George Graham (1673-1751) one of the great English watchmakers. He invented the mercury pendulum and the exhaust with the dead race. (See f. J. That does not mean that people have to have the practical usefulness of artworks. Our intention is just to show that these wonderful features, beauty and proportion, are totally different, not that any of them can be overlooked.
* Note: Burke, Edmund -About sublime and beautiful, Meridian Publishing House, 1977