If we consider genius as the talent for fine art (which the proper signification of the word imports), and if we would analyse it from this point of view into the faculties which must concur to constitute such a talent, it is imperative at the outset accurately to determine the difference between beauty of nature, which it only requires taste to judge, and beauty of art, which requires genius for its possibility (a possibility to which regard must also be paid in judging such an object).