---
title: 'The Beautiful'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Martin Philip Otts'
date: 1866-07-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Aesthetics'
- 'Natural Theology'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 19'
- 'Romans 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/otts-1866-the-beautiful
---

# The Beautiful

Treats the beautiful as a real aesthetic datum, distinct from the agreeable or useful, and seeks its cause through philosophical analysis. Surveys Plato, Locke, Kant and links aesthetic feeling to mind's powers and God.

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