Excerpt from An Amateur Art-Book: Lectures Delivered at the Town Hall, Banbury, Also at Felstead House, Oxford; With Some Notes on the Oxford Educational Collection of Casts<br><br>IT may be as well to prefix to these Lectures a short explanation of terms which will be used in them or if not, which are made free use of in conversation and writing about art, and are sometimes incorrectly or vaguely applied. 'it is of course desirable to avoid metaphysical expressions as far as possible: that is to say, expressions which belong only to the science of metaphysics. But we cannot escape the truth that ideas are metaphysical facts, and not physical: and that all exchange of thought is exchange of ideas, whether it be of thoughts about art, or anything else. We must be' allowed the use of so many terms of mental science as will explain our nomenclature; or in other words, give our reasons for calling things by current names.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.