But this is only one of the emotions of a higher class when powerfully aroused.

There is pity, tenderness--the same kind of tenderness that one feels toward a child--the love of the helpless, the desire to protect.

And a third sentiment felt at such a time more strongly than at any other, is the sentiment of duty; responsibilities moral and social are then comprehended in a totally new way.

Surely none can dispute these facts nor the beauty of them.
Moral sentiments are the highest of all; but next to them the sentiment of beauty in itself, the artistic feeling, is also a very high form of intellectual and even of secondary moral experience.

Scientifically there is a relation between the beautiful and the good, between the physically perfect and the ethically perfect.