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SUBLIME (Lat. sublimis, exalted)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1062 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SUBLIME (See also:Lat. sublimis, exalted) , in See also:aesthetics; a See also:term applied to the quality of transcendant greatness, whether See also:physical, moral, intellectual or See also:artistic. It is specially used for a greatness with which nothing else can be compared and which is beyond all possibility of calculation or measurement. Psychologically the effect of the See also:perception of the sublime is a feeling of See also:awe or helplessness. The first study of the value of the sublime is the See also:treatise ascribed to See also:Longinus (q.v.), On the Sublime (strictly IIEpi v¢ovs). See also:Burke and See also:Kant both investigated the subject (cf. Burke's See also:Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful, 1756) and both distinguished the sublime from the beautiful. Later writers tend to include the sublime in the beautiful (see AESTHETICS).

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