| The beautiful in nature is a question of the form
of the object, and this consists in limitation, whereas the sublime is
to be found in an object even devoid of form, so far as it immediately
involves, or else by its presence provokes a representation of
limitlessness, yet with a super-added thought
of its totality...the sublime…cannot be contained in any sensuous
form, but rather concerns ideas of reason, which, although no adequate
presentation is possible, may be excited and called into mind by that
very inadequacy itself which does admit of sensuous
presentation. |