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PART II.

OF TRUTH.

SECTION I.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES RESPECTING IDEAS OF TRUTH.

CHAPTER I.-Of Ideas of Truth in their connection with those of Beauty and Relation.

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§ 1. The two great ends of landscape painting are the representation of facts and thoughts

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§ 2. They induce a different choice of material subjects

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§ 3. The first mode of selection apt to produce sameness and repetition 44 § 4. The second necessitating variety

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§ 5. Yet the first is delightful to all

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§ 8. The exceeding importance of truth

§ 9. Coldness or want of beauty no sign of truth

§ 10. How truth may be considered a just criterion of all art

CHAPTER II.That the Truth of Nature is not to be discerned by the uneducated Senses.

§ 1. The common self-deception of men with respect to the power of discerning truth .....

§ 2. Men usually see little of what is before their eyes

§ 3. But more or less in proportion to their natural sensibility to what is beautiful

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§ 4. Connected with a perfect state of moral feeling

§ 5. And of the intellectual powers

§ 6. How sight depends upon previous knowledge

§ 7. The difficulty increased by the variety of truths in nature

§ 8. We recognise objects by their least important attributes. Compare

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CHAPTER III. Of the Relative Importance of Truths:First, that particular Truths are more important

than General Ones.

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§ 1. Necessity of determining the relative importance of truths........... 57 § 2. Misapplication of the aphorism: "General truths are more important than particular ones

§ 3. Falseness of this maxim, taken without explanation

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§ 4. Generality important in the subject, particularity in the predicate... 58 5. The importance of truths of species is not owing to their generality

§ 6. All truths valuable as they are characteristic.......

§ 7. Otherwise truths of species are valuable, because beautiful

§ 8. And many truths, valuable if separate, may be objectionable in connection with others.

§ 9. Recapitulation........

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CHAPTER IV. Of the Relative Importance of Truths:— Secondly, that Rare Truths are more important than Frequent Ones.

§ 1. No accidental violation of nature's principles should be represented 63

§ 2. But the cases in which those principles have been strikingly

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CHAPTER V.-Of the Relative Importance of Truths:Thirdly, that Truths of Colour are the least important of all Truths.

1. Difference between primary and secondary qualities in bodies...... 2. The first are fully characteristic; the second imperfectly so....... § 3. Colour is a secondary quality, therefore less important than form.... 67 § 4. Colour no distinction between objects of the same species................ § 5. And different in association from what it is alone

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§ 6. It is not certain whether any two people see the same colours in things.

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§ 7. Form, considered as an element of landscape, includes light and shade.

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§ 8. Importance of light and shade in expressing the character of bodies, and unimportance of colour

§ 9. Recapitulation..

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§ 35. Works of David Roberts: their fidelity and grace

§ 36. Clarkson Stanfield

§ 37. J. M. W. Turner. Force of national feeling in all great painters § 38. Influence of this feeling on the choice of Landscape subject

§ 39. Its peculiar manifestation in Turner

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§ 40. The domestic subjects of the Liber Studiorum

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41. Turner's painting of French and Swiss landscape. The latter defi-
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§ 42. His rendering of Italian character still less successful. His large compositions how failing

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§ 43. His views of Italy destroyed by brilliancy and redundant quantity 130 § 44. Changes introduced by him in the received system of art

§ 45. Difficulties of his later manner. Resultant deficiencies

§ 46. Reflection on his very recent works

§ 47. Difficulty of demonstration in such subjects

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SECTION II.

OF GENERAL TRUTHS.

CHAPTER I.-Of Truth of Tone.

§ 1. Meanings of the word "tone:"-First, the right relation of objects in shadow to the principal light

§ 2. Secondly, the quality of colour by which it is felt to owe part of its brightness to the hue of light upon it

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§ 3. Difference between tone in its first sense and aërial perspective
§ 4. The pictures of the old masters perfect in relation of middle tints
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§ 5. And consequently totally false in relation of middle tints to darkness 139 § 6. General falsehood of such a system § 7. The principle of Turner in this respect

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§ 12. Remarkable difference in this respect between the paintings and drawings of Turner

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§ 13. Not owing to want of power over the material

§ 14. The two distinct qualities of light to be considered

§ 15. Falsehoods by which Titian attains the appearance of quality in light 145

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