Or whatever constitutes excellence

Or whatever constitutes excellence

Or whatever constitutes excellence

As we have intended to use it, Webster defines the word taste to be "the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence; style; manner with respect to what is pleasing." With this understanding, therefore; a fitness to the purpose for which a thing is intended - got up in a manner agreeable to the eye and the mind - preserving also a harmony between its various parts and uses; pleasing to the eye, as addressed to the sense, and satisfactory to the mind, as appropriate to the object for which it is required; - these constitute good-taste, as the term is here understood.