pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed

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Smith, Elder, 1873

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Use of the terms Temperate and Intemperate 99
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Grounds of inferiority in the pleasures which are subjects of intem perance
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Evidence of higher rank in pleasures of sight and hearing
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How the lower pleasures may be elevated in rank
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How degraded by heartless reception
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How exalted by affection
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First of Infinity or
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Of Unity or the Type of the Divine Com
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Of Symmetry or the Type of Divine Justice
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Of Moderation or the Type of Government
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Of Vital Beauty I Of Relative Vital
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II Of Generic Vital Beauty
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Or to perfection of type
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The difference of position between plants and animals
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Admits of variety in the Ideal of the former
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Ideal form in vegetables destroyed by cultivation
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The Beauty of repose and felicity how consistent with such Ideal
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The ideality of art
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III Of Vital Beauty in Man 1 Condition of the human creature entirely different from that of the lower animals
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How the conception of the bodily Ideal is reached
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Modifications of the bodily Ideal owing to influence of mind First Of Intellect
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What beauty is bestowed by them
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Is a sign of Gods kind purpose towards the race
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Consequent separation and difference of Ideals
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The effects of the Adamite curse are to be distinguished from signs of its immediate activity
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Ideal form is only to be obtained by portraiture
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Evil results of opposite practice in modern times
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Ideal form to be reached only by Love
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Expressions chiefly destructive of Ideal Character First Pride
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Secondly Sensuality
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How connected with impurity of colour
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Rubens Correggio and Guido
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Thirdly Ferocity and Fear The latter how to be distinguished from Awe
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Ferocity is joined always with Fear Its unpardonableness
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Of passion generally
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Recapitulation
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General Conclusions respecting the Theoretic Faculty 1 There are no sources of the emotion of Beauty more than those found in things visible
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What imperfection exists in visible things How in a sort by imagina tion removable
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What objections may be made to this conclusion
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How interrupted by false feeling
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Greatness and truth are sometimes by the Deity sustained and spoken in and through evil men
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The second objection arising from the coldness of Christian men to external Beauty
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Reasons for this coldness in the anxieties of the world These anxieties overwrought and criminal
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Theoria the service of Heaven
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SECTION II
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The works of the Metaphysicians how nugatory with respect to this faculty
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This instance nugatory
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Various instances
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Penetrative Associative Contemplative
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Of Imagination Associative 1 Of simple Conception
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How connected with Verbal knowledge
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Characteristics of Composition
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Imagination not yet manifested
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Imagination associative is the corelative conception of imperfect com ponent parts
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And Turner
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The due function of Associative imagination with respect to nature
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Of Imagination Penetrative 1 Imagination penetrative is concerned not with the combining but the apprehending of things
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The Imagination seizes always by the innermost point
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It acts intuitively and without reasoning
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Absence of Imagination how shown
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Fancy how involved with Imagination
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Fancy is never serious
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Fancy restless
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And suggestive of the Imagination
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Imagination addresses itself to Imagination
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The Annunciation
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The Baptism of Christ Its treatment by various painters
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By Tintoret
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The Crucifixion
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The Massacre of the Innocents
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Various works in the Scuola di San Rocco
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The Last Judgment How treated by various painters
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By Tintoret
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The imaginative Verity how distinguished from realism
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Bandinelli Canova Mino da Fiesole
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Recapitulation The perfect function of the Imagination is the intui tive perception of Ultimate Truth
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Imagination how vulgarly understood
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How its cultivation is dependent on the moral feelings
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And on habitual reference to nature
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Of Imagination Contemplative 1 Imagination contemplative is not part of the essence but only a habit or mode of the faculty
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Is not in itself capable of adding to the charm of fair things
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But gives to the Imagination its regardant power over them
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The third office of Fancy distinguished from Imagination contemplative
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Various instances
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Morbid or Nervous Fancy
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Except under narrow limits First Abstract rendering of form with out colour
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Or of both without texture
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Abstraction or typical representation of animal form
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Either when it is symbolically used
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Exception in delicate and superimposed ornament
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Abstraction necessary from imperfection of materials
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Exaggeration Its laws and limits First in scale of representation
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Secondly of things capable of variety of scale
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Thirdly necessary in expression of characteristic features on diminished scale
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Recapitulation
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Of the Superhuman Ideal 1 The subject is not to be here treated in detail
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And these are in or through creature forms familiar to us
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First of the expression of Inspiration
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No representation of that which is more than creature is possible
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Supernatural character expressed by modification of accessaries
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Landscape of Benozzo Gozzoli
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Such landscape is not to be imitated
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Colour and Decoration their use in representations of the Super natural
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And Colour pure
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Anatomical development how far admissible
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Symmetry how valuable
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Conclusion
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ADDENDA
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