  Du Bos had a significant influence on aesthetics in Britain. His influence is found, for example, in James Harris’s Three Treatises, particularly in the second of these treatises, ‘A Discourse on Music, Painting and Poetry’ (Harris 1744). In fact, this treatise is little more than a brief reprisal of central themes from the Critical Reflections. Harris, like Du Bos, distinguishes between the fine arts according to their means of expression. Painting employs natural signs and poetry artificial ones. They agree that this gives painting an advantage when it comes to the arousal of emotion, but both believe that the power of poetry can be enhanced by music and staging to the point where it has the advantage over poetry. They agree that art owes its value to its capacity to arouse sentiments.