Feeling is in him consciousness, consciousness is self-consciousness, the understanding is reason, the passion, freedom, the mechanical instinct artistic sense, the comparison science.
3624. The spirits of the senses are Art-spirits, the spirit of reason is the spirit of Science.
Art.
3625. Art is the representation of the senses in Nature.
3626. The sense is, however, the last or ultimate design of Nature.
Art is consequently the representation of Nature's design. (Ed. 1st, 1811. § 3517.)
3627. That is beautiful which represents the will of Nature.
But non-beautiful is that which represents real Nature by means of art.
3628. Art is one universal business. Beautiful is that, which represents the world within a fragment or portion of the world.
3629. There is also one natural beauty—unconscious formation of the world's laws.