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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 (
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Lat. sublimis, exalted)  , in
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aesthetics; a
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term applied to the quality of transcendant greatness, whether
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physical, moral, intellectual or
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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
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perception of the
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sublime is a feeling of
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awe or helplessness . The first study of the value of the sublime is the
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treatise ascribed to
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Longinus (q.v.), On the Sublime (strictly IIEpi v¢ovs) .
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Burke and
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Kant both investigated the subject (cf . Burke's
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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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