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§ 19. Infinity not rightly implied by vastness..
CHAPTER VI.-Of Unity, or the Type of the Divine Comprehen-
CHAPTER VII.-Of Repose, or the Type of Divine Permanence.
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§ 1. Universal feeling respecting the necessity of repose in art. Its sources
§ 2. Repose how expressed in matter
§ 3. The necessity to repose of an implied energy
§ 4. Mental repose. How noble....
§ 5. Its universal value as a test of art....
§ 6. Instances in the Laocoon and Theseus..
7. And in altar tombs......
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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...
CHAPTER IX.-Of Purity, or the Type of Divine Energy.
§ 4. Associated ideas adding to the power of the impression. Influence of
clearness.....
§ 5. Perfect beauty of Surface, in what consisting..
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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..
§ 7. How found in natural curves and colours..
§ 8. How difficult of attainment, yet essential to all good.....
CHAPTER XI.-General Inferences respecting Typical Beauty.
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§ 1. The subject incompletely treated, yet admitting of general conclusions.. 81
§ 2. Typical Beauty not created for man's sake......
§ 3. But degrees of it admitted for his sake..
§ 4. What encouragement hence to be received...
CHAPTER XII.—Of Vital Beauty. First, as Relative.
§ 1. Transition from typical to vital Beauty..
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§ 2. The perfection of the Theoretic faculty as concerned with vital Beauty, is
Charity....
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§ 3. Only with respect to plants, less affection than sympathy... . . .
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§ 4. Which is proportioned to the appearance of Energy in the Plants..
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§ 8. The second perfection of the Theoretic faculty as concerned with life, is
justice of moral judgment...
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§ 9. How impeded.... . . . . .
§ 10. The influence of moral expression...
§ 11. As also in Plants
§ 12. Recapitulation
CHAPTER XIII.-Of Vital Beauty.-Secondly, as Generic.
§ 1. The beauty of fulfilment of appointed function in every animal........ 95
§ 2. The two senses of the word Ideal. Either it refers to action of the
imagination......
§ 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..
§ 15. Ideality, how belonging to ages and conditions..
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§ 2. What room here for idealization..
CHAPTER XIV-Of Vital Beauty.—Thirdly, in Man.
§ 1. Condition of the human creature entirely different from that of the lower
animals......
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§ 3. How the conception of the bodily ideal is reached......
§ 4. Modifications of the bodily ideal owing to influence of mind. First, of
Intellect......
§ 5. Secondly, of the Moral Feelings..
§ 6. What beauty is bestowed by them
§ 7. How the soul culture interferes harmfully with the bodily ideal........ 109
§ 8. The inconsistency among the effects of the Mental Virtues on the form.. 109
§ 9. Is a sign of God's kind purpose towards the race...
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§ 10. Consequent Separation and difference of Ideals...
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§ 11. The effects of the Adamite curse are to be distinguished from signs of its
immediate activity. . . . . . .
§ 18. Expressions chiefly destructive of Ideal Character. 1st. Pride..
§ 24. Degrees of Descent in this respect : Rubens, Correggio, and Guido..... 118
§ 25. And Modern Art.....
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§ 26. Thirdly, Ferocity and fear. The latter how to be distinguished from Awe 119
§ 27. Holy Fear, how distinct from human Terror......
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§ 28. Ferocity is joined always with Fear. Its unpardonableness.....
§ 29. Such expressions how sought by powerless and impious painters..
§ 30. Of passion generally....
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§ 31. It is never to be for itself exhibited-at least on the face...
§ 32. Recapitulation....
CHAPTER XV.-General Conclusions respecting the Theoretic
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Faculty.
§ 1. There are no sources of the emotion of beauty more than those found in
things visible......
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§ 2. What imperfection exists in visible things. How in a sort by imagination
removeable..
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§ 3. Which however affects not our present conclusions.....
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4. The four sources from which the sense of Beauty is derived are all divine 126
§ 8. Greatness and truth are sometimes by the Deity sustained and spoken in
and through Evil men...........
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§ 9. The second objection arising from the coldness of Christian men to ex-
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10. Reasons for this coldness in the anxieties of the world. These anxieties
§ 1. A partial examination only of the Imagination is to be attempted
§ 2. The works of the Metaphysicians how nugatory with respect to this faculty 134
§ 3. D. Stewart's definition, how inadequate
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§ 4. This instance nugatory..
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§ 5. Various instances.
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§ 6. The three operations of the Imagination. Penetrative, Associative, Con-
templative........
§ 5. What powers are implied by it. The First of the Three Functions of
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§ 6. Imagination not yet manifested.....
§ 7. Imagination associative is the co-relative conception of imperfect com-
ponent parts.....
§ 11. How manifested in treatment of uncertain relations. Its deficiency illustrated 145
§14. The monotony of unimaginative treatment....
§ 12. Laws of art, the safeguard of the unimaginative.....
§ 13. Are by the imaginative painter despised. Tests of imagination..
§ 15. Imagination never repeats itself...
§ 16. Relation of the Imaginative faculty to the Theoretic....
§ 17. Modifications of its manifestation.....
§ 18. Instances of absence of Imagination.-Claude, Gaspar Poussin..
§ 21. The due function of Associative imagination with respect to nature...... 151
§ 22. The sign of imaginative work is its appearance of absolute truth........ 152
CHAPTER III.-Of Imagination Penetrative.
§ 1. Imagination penetrative is concerned not with the combining but appre-
hending of things......
§ 2. Milton's and Dante's description of flame.....
§ 3. The imagination seizes always by the innermost point...
§ 4. It acts intuitively and without reasoning....
§ 5. Signs of it in language.....
§ 6. Absence of imagination, how shown.....
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§ 29. Recapitulation. The perfect function of the Imagination is the intuitive
perception of Ultimate Truth....
§ 30. Imagination how vulgarly understood.............
§ 31. How its cultivation is dependent on the moral feelings...
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§ 32. On Independence of Mind...
§ 33. And on habitual reference to nature..
CHAPTER IV.-Of Imagination Contemplative.
§ 1. Imagination contemplative is not part of the essence, but only a habit or
mode of the faculty....
§ 2. The ambiguity of Conception.....
§ 3. Is not in itself capable of adding to the charm of fair things...
§ 4. But gives to the Imagination its regardant power over them....
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§ 5. The third office of Fancy distinguished from imagination contemplative.. 185