Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: that invites their play; (4) that the exercise of sensibility is typically complex, an elaborate transformation through levels of refinement, of original sensory responsiveness redirected by infusion and overlay of acquired psychic processes; (5) that the original range and service of each type of sensibility conditions its mode of participation in the composite issue and its possibilities of development; (6) that the element of value enters early and directs the development and the education of sensibilities, bringing it about that practically they are rated and denned in terms of their acquired applications. These principles readily emerge from the observation of the play of the sensibilities in the practical life; their bearing upon the foundations of character and temperament invites further comment. The central factor in any practical rating of a given order of sensibility is the "function" served; closely associated in the rating is the level at which it arises or to which it attains; yet the medium through which it is maintained is neither accidental nor incidental to its status and course; the result reflects each of these aspects. Even though we consider the sensibilities as exercised, the "biological" situation which gave them birth is not negligible; for the native quality of the original disposition directs and persists in the most developed psychological transformations. The arts severally and jointly flourish because of the original surplus of gratification in sensory experience. And no less in the sciences: sanitation, however scientifically pursued, cannot dispense with the directive impulse of sensory comfort and discomfort, which at each stage of its progress makes its ministrations desired or acceptable. Men's surroundings will continue to be as artistic and ... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.