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"But the machine now attacks and displaces this skill. The cunning of trained fingers is transferred to cranks, cogs and belts. The trade secrets are objectified in mechanical form; able to mix the product, compound the chemicals, or make the notch at the right place. "Besides this loss of skill, the workman loses, in the grind of the machine, his sense of the value of his work.
Then we consult an architect, and he makes us a plan, which plan is his mental image, suggested by our mental image. Then, the plan once decided upon, we consult the builder, and at last the house stands completed an objectified Mental Image. And so it is with every created thing all manifestation of a Mental Image.
An intermediate phase, when an attempt is made to pass from the ideal to the practical, from pure speculation to social facts. During this period, when the work of the imagination, instead of merely becoming fixed in books, tends to become objectified in acts, we find many failures and some successes.
This is the general tendency of the Kantian Ethics. Innocence is in its very nature stupid. Our body is itself our will objectified; it is one of the first and foremost of objects, and the deeds that we accomplish for the sake of the body show us the evil inherent in our will.
The close-up has objectified in our world of perception our mental act of attention and by it has furnished art with a means which far transcends the power of any theater stage. The scheme of the close-up was introduced into the technique of the film play rather late, but it has quickly gained a secure position.
The extent to which the idea of the self thus follows the objectified feelings depends largely upon the amount of their reverberation throughout the organism.
But yet, it might be said that the content of beauty might conceivably be deduced from the psychological conditions of absorption. In the same way, Santayana's "Beauty as objectified pleasure," or pleasure as the quality of a thing, is neither a determination of objective beauty nor a sufficient description of the psychological state.
And, in general, works of art arouse but offer no personal occasions for feeling, and therefore absorb it into themselves. The process of objectification may, however, go further. It often happens in the aesthetic experience that feelings are not objectified alone, but carry with them the idea of the self I come to feel myself as joyous or despairing in the sounds.
Let us now move away from that pure lyric centre in another direction. In a traditional ballad like "Sir Patrick Spens," a modern ballad like Tennyson's "The Revenge," or Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner," is not the poet's vision becoming objectified, directed upon events or things outside of the circle of his own subjective emotion?
Present impressions are merged so completely in structural survivals of the past that instead of arousing any ideas distinct enough to be objectified they merely stimulate the inner sense, remain imbedded in the general feeling of motion or life, and constitute in fact a heightened sentiment of pure vitality and freedom.
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