Excerpt from The Principles of Criticism: An Introduction to the Study of Literature For all the purposes of every-day life taste will serve. But if we go round a picture gallery With an artist we soon find that while 'taste' makes the sight of these pictures a genuine enjoyment, it will go only a little way towards helping us to discrimi nate between the relative merits of the several works./ Broadly speaking, we do not see much difference in them. But the artist, or the critic, sees both the excellencies and defects to which our eyes are blind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.