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SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.
PART III.
OF IDEAS OF BEAUTY.
3. The doubtful force of the term "utility".
SECTION I.
OF THE THEORETIC FACULTY.
CHAPTER I.-Of the Rank and Relations of the Theoretic
Faculty.
1. With what care the subject is to be approached...
2. And of what importance considered....
4. Its proper sense..
5. How falsely applied in these times.
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6. The evil consequences of such interpretation. How connected
with national power....
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7. How to be averted.
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8. Division of the pursuits of men into subservient and objective.
9. Their relative dignities.......
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§ 10. How reversed through erring notions of the contemplative
and imaginative faculties..
§ 11. Object of the present section..
CHAPTER II.—Of the Theoretic Faculty as concerned with
Pleasures of Sense.
1. Explanation of the term "theoretic"......
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2. Of the differences of rank in pleasures of sense.
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3. Use of the terms Temperate and Intemperate.
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4. Right use of the term "intemperate"...
5. Grounds of inferiority in the pleasures which are subjects of intemperance.....
6. Evidence of higher rank in pleasures of sight and hearing... 15
7. How the lower pleasures may be elevated in rank.
§ 8. Ideas of beauty how essentially moral..
9. How degraded by heartless reception...
10. How exalted by affection.....
CHAPTER III.-Of Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Impressions
of Sense.
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1. By what test is the health of the perceptive faculty to be
determined?....
2. And in what sense may the terms Right and Wrong be at-
tached to its conclusions ?......
§ 3. What power we have over impressions of sense..
§ 4. Depends on acuteness of attention...
5. Ultimate conclusions universal....
6. What duty is attached to this power over impressions of
§ 10. The necessity of submission in early stages of judgment..
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15. How certain conclusions respecting beauty are by reason de- monstrable.....
16. With what liabilities to error.
§ 17. The term " beauty" how limitable in the outset. Divided into typical and vital..
CHAPTER IV.-Of False Opinions held concerning Beauty. 1. Of the false opinion that truth is beauty, and vice versa.....
§ 2. Of the false opinion that beauty is usefulness. Compare
Chap. xii. 5...
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§ 3. Of the false opinion that beauty results from custom. Com-
pare Chap. vi. § 1......
4. The twofold operation of custom. It deadens sensation, but confirms affection.......
5. But never either creates or destroys the essence of beauty.. 32
6. Instances.....
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Of the false opinion that beauty depends on the association of
ideas...
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8. Association. Is, 1st, rational. It is of no efficiency as a cause
of beauty.....
9. Association accidental. The extent of its influence..
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§ 10. The dignity of its function.....
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§ 11. How it is connected with impressions of beauty..
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12. And what caution it renders necessary in the examination of
them....
CHAPTER V.-Of Typical Beauty :-First, of Infinity, or the Type of Divine Incomprehensibility.
1. Impossibility of adequately treating the subject..
2. With what simplicity of feeling to be approached.
3. The child instinct respecting space.
4. Continued in after life..
5. Whereto this instinct is traceable.
9. How the dignity of treatment is proportioned to the expres-
sion of infinity..
10. Examples among the Southern schools..
11. Among the Venetians.....
12. Among the painters of landscape..
13. Other modes in which the power of infinity is felt..
14. The beauty of curvature...
15. How constant in external nature.
16. The beauty of gradation...
17. How found in nature..
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2. The glory of all things is their Unity.
§ 18. How necessary in Art..
19. Infinity not rightly implied by vastness..
CHAPTER VI.-Of Unity, or the Type of the Divine Compre-
hensiveness.
§ 1. The general conception of divine Unity..
3. The several kinds of unity. Subjectional. Original. Of
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8. The conducing of variety towards unity of subjection.
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9. And towards unity of sequence....
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12. How by nature obtained...
10. The nature of proportion. 1st, of apparent proportion..
§ 11. The value of apparent proportion in curvature..
§ 13. Apparent proportion in melodies of line..
14. Error of Burke in this matter......
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15. Constructive proportion. Its influence in plants.
16. And animals.
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17. Summary...
CHAPTER VII.-Of Repose, or the Type of Divine Perma-
nence.
1. Universal feeling respecting the necessity of repose in art. Its
sources..
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CHAPTER VIII.-Of Symmetry, or the Type of Divine Justice.
1. Symmetry, what and how found in organic nature.
§ 2. How necessary in art....
3. To what its agreeableness is referable. Various instances...
4. Especially in religious art.....
CHAPTER IX.-Of Purity, or the Type of Divine Energy.
1. The influence of light as a sacred symbol...
§ 2. The idea of purity connected with it....
3. Originally derived from conditions of matter.
4. Associated ideas adding to the power of the impression. In- fluence of clearness...
5. Perfect beauty of surface, in what consisting..
6. Purity only metaphorically a type of sinlessness.
7. Energy, how expressed by purity of matter.
8. And of color...
9. Spirituality, how so expressed..
CHAPTER X.-Of Moderation, or the Type of Government
by Law.
1. Meaning of the terms Chasteness and Refinement..
2. How referable to temporary fashions..
3. How to the perception of completion.
4. Finish, by great masters esteemed essential.
5. Moderation, its nature and value..
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It is the girdle of beauty...
7. How found in natural curves and colors...
8. How difficult of attainment, yet essential to all good....
CHAPTER XI.-General Inferences respecting Typical Beauty.
1. The subject incompletely treated, yet admitting of general
conclusions...
2. Typical beauty not created for man's sake.
3. But degrees of it for his sake admitted..
4. What encouragement hence to be received.
CHAPTER XII.-Of Vital Beauty :-First, as Relative.
1. Transition from typical to vital Beauty.
§ 2. The perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned with
vital beauty, is charity..
§ 3. Only with respect to plants, less affection than sympathy.... 91
4. Which is proportioned to the appearance of energy in the
plants....
5. This sympathy is unselfish, and does not regard utility.
6. Especially with respect to animals......
7. And it is destroyed by evidences of mechanism..
8. The second perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned
with life is justice of moral judgment.....
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CHAPTER XIII.-Of Vital Beauty :-Secondly, as Generic.
1. The beauty of fulfilment of appointed function in every
animal...
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2. The two senses of the word " ideal." Either it refers to ac-
tion of the imagination...
4. This last sense how inaccurate, yet to be retained..
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5. Of Ideal form. First, in the lower animals..
6. In what consistent...
7. Ideal form in vegetables.
8. The difference of position between plants and animals..
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§ 9. Admits of variety in the ideal of the former....
10. Ideal form in vegetables destroyed by cultivation.
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§ 11. Instance in the Soldanella and Ranunculus...
12. The beauty of repose and felicity, how consistent with such
ideal...
13. The ideality of Art.
14. How connected with the imaginative faculties.
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15. Ideality, how belonging to ages and conditions.
CHAPTER XIV.-Of Vital Beauty:-Thirdly, in Man.
§ 1. Condition of the human creature entirely different from that
of the lower animals.....
How the conception of the bodily ideal is reached....
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4. Modifications of the bodily ideal owing to influence of mind.
First, of intellect......
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5. Secondly, of the moral feelings..
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6. What beauty is bestowed by them..
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7. How the soul culture interferes harmfully with the bodily
ideal.....
§ 8. The inconsistency among the effects of the mental virtues on
the form...
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9. Is a sign of God's kind purpose towards the race...
10. Consequent separation and difference of ideals..
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