Chapter One and Two define literature and art as the expression of how an author or artist sees his world and distinguishes this from other types of expression such as a newspaper article, lab report, essay, etc.
Chapter Three defends aesthetics and beauty as the evolutionary positive extreme the basis of which is steeped in survival. It concludes that beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, that the aesthetic sense has an evolutionary purpose to enable man to recognize and apppreciate that which is positive for his survival.
