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bliss, I for one decline altogether to accept the answer as sufficient.
I should say to him, My dear Sir, if you can prove to me that this quality of feeling that you speak of does as a fact, attch to what you call the beautiful, or that which would be admirable without any reason for being so, I am willing enough to believe you; but I cannot without strenuous proof admit that any particular quality of feeling is admirable without a reason.
For it is too revolting to be believed unless one is forced to believe it.
A fundamental question like this, however practical the issues of it may be, differs entirely from any ordinary practical question, in that whatever is accepted