LATE PROFESSOR OF MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT. NEW YORK: SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG, AND COMPANY. 1874. KOHLER ART LIBRARY Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG, AND COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. 5716 W ·T63 PREFACE. THE author of the following pages, during nearly. the whole period of his connection with the board of instruction in the University of Vermont, was accustomed to deliver lectures to the students on the subject of Fine Art. These lectures were associated with the philosophical studies of the senior year, after the plan pursued in some of the European Universities. Not only was he drawn to the subject by natural taste and inclination, which led him during his visits to Europe to study with much enthusiasm, and with careful attention, the great works of Art contained in the principal galleries of Germany, France, and Italy; but he considered, that, in any comprehensive survey of the powers and energies of the human mind, this important phase of its activity was by no means to be passed over in silence. He may have been impressed, at the same time, with the great importance attached to the subject, in its theoretic aspect, in the Uni |