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It was the first work ever written on the sublime, using the ocean as an example of something with the magnitude to produce a sublime experience. The author contrasted the feelings evoked by small streams versus the ocean.
Hence it is almost an instinct that we follow in giving our admiration not to small streams, though they be pollucid and useful, but to the Nile, and the Danube, and the Rhine, and far more to the oce...
— Episode: Episode #060 ... Kant pt. 5 - The Sublim...
Episode: Episode #060 ... Kant pt. 5 - The Sublime
It was the first work ever written on the sublime, using the ocean as an example of something with the magnitude to produce a sublime experience. The author contrasted the feelings evoked by small streams versus the ocean.
Hence it is almost an instinct that we follow in giving our admiration not to small streams, though they be pollucid and useful, but to the Nile, and the Danube, and the Rhine, and far more to the ocean.