and hardly sufficing for probability, of the derivation of a taste, thus confirmed by examples, from the deep-lying grounds of agreement common to all men, in judging of the forms under which objects are given to them.

Hence, we consider some products of taste as exemplary. Not that taste can be acquired by imitating others; for it must be an original faculty. He who imitates a model shows, no doubt, in so far as he attains to it, skill; but only shows taste in so far as he can judge of this model itself. It follows from hence that the highest model, the archetype of taste, is a mere Idea, which everyone must produce in himself; and according to which he must judge every Object of taste, every example of judgement by taste, and even the taste of everyone. Idea properly means a rational concept, and