Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Marius Borror and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's notes: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. Chapter headings were originally constructed as side-notes. They were placed here at the head of their respective paragraphs, and moved to paragraph's start where given at paragraph's middle. See HTML version for the original headers placement. [Illustration: LANDSCAPE FROM A PAINTING BY J. M. W. TURNER] Library Edition THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN MODERN PAINTERS VOLUME II--OF TRUTH AND THEORETIC FACULTIES _Volume III_--OF MANY THINGS NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NEW YORK CHICAGO MODERN PAINTERS. VOLUME II., CONTAINING PART III., SECTIONS I. AND II. OF THE IMAGINATIVE AND THEORETIC FACULTIES. SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS. PART III. OF IDEAS OF BEAUTY. SECTION I. OF THE THEORETIC FACULTY. CHAPTER I.--Of the Rank and Relations of the Theoretic Faculty. PAGE Sec. 1. With what care the subject is to be approached. 1 Sec. 2. And of what importance considered. 2 Sec. 3. The doubtful force of the term "utility". 3 Sec. 4. Its proper sense. 4 Sec. 5. How falsely applied in these times. 4 Sec. 6. The evil consequences of such interpretation. How connected with national power. 5 Sec. 7. How to be averted. 6 Sec. 8. Division of the pursuits of men into subservient and objective. 8 Sec. 9. Their relative dignities. 10 Sec. 10. How reversed through erring notions of the contemplative and imaginative faculties. 10 Sec. 11. Object of the present section. 11 CHAPTER II.--Of the Theoretic Faculty as concerned with Pleasures of Sense.