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is not a practical science but is a study in the
pure interest of theory. The conception of a
family of sciences called normative of this description is, I
believe, due to Herbart, together with the word
normative. [insert from next page] But Herbart and others only
admit two such sciences, since they push join
esthetics and ethics together in one. I certainly could
not admit that esthetics, in the sense of the
science of sensuous beauty is one of the three
normative sciences. If I have to make a
word to express the science of the adorably
admirable, which I think is the true normative
science, I should shall call it agastics axiagastics. But
on the whole I do not think do not that Baumgar the word
esthetics is too much shamed from Baumgarten