a like concept of Reason. Therefore the satisfaction in the one case is bound up with the representation of quality, in the other with that of quantity.

And the latter satisfaction is quite different in kind from the former, for this [the Beautiful] directly brings with it a feeling of the furtherance of life, and thus is compatible with charms and with the play of the Imagination. But the other [the feeling of the Sublime] is a pleasure that arises only indirectly; viz. it is produced by the feeling of a momentary checking of the vital powers and a consequent stronger outflow of them, so that it seems to be regarded as emotion, — not play, but earnest in the exercise of the Imagination. — Hence it is incompatible with charms; and as the mind is not merely attracted by the object