“the beauty of nature appears only as a reflectin of the beauty,that belongs to spirit, as an imperfect incomplete mode [of beauty],a mode which in its substance is contained in the spirit itself"*hegel”
T.M. Knox
Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, Vol 1: Introduction & Parts 1-2
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