A scathing war of words was waged in the press between the two schools. Throw into the mix was Chambers, with his new requirement of terror to define the sublime. There were now three conceptions of space: the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime, Repton countered that the use and experience of the landscape should be the foremost criteria for evaluation, not its two-dimensional characteristics. Walpole defended Brown against Chambers. Knight and Price later disagreed with each other over matters of taste and what form variety should take.