Sec. 1. Of the false opinion that truth is beauty, and vice versa. 30
Sec. 2. Of the false opinion that beauty is usefulness. Compare
Chap. xii. Sec. 5. 31
Sec. 3. Of the false opinion that beauty results from custom. Compare
Chap. vi. Sec. 1. 31
Sec. 4. The twofold operation of custom. It deadens sensation, but
confirms affection. 31
Sec. 5. But never either creates or destroys the essence of beauty. 32
Sec. 6. Instances. 32
Sec. 7. Of the false opinion that beauty depends on the association of
ideas. 33
Sec. 8. Association. Is, 1st, rational. It is of no efficiency as a
cause of beauty. 33
Sec. 9. Association accidental. The extent of its influence. 34
Sec. 10. The dignity of its function. 35
Sec. 11. How it is connected with impressions of beauty. 36
Sec. 12. And what caution it renders necessary in the examination of
them. 36
CHAPTER V.--Of Typical Beauty:--First, of Infinity, or the Type of
Divine Incomprehensibility.
Sec. 1. Impossibility of adequately treating the subject. 38
Sec. 2. With what simplicity of feeling to be approached. 38
Sec. 3. The child instinct respecting space. 39
Sec. 4. Continued in after life. 40
Sec. 5. Whereto this instinct is traceable. 40
Sec. 6. Infinity how necessary in art. 41
Sec. 7. Conditions of its necessity. 42
Sec. 8. And connected analogies. 42
Sec. 9. How the dignity of treatment is proportioned to the expression
of infinity. 43
Sec. 10. Examples among the Southern schools. 44
Sec. 11. Among the Venetians. 44
Sec. 12. Among the painters of landscape. 45
Sec. 13. Other modes in which the power of infinity is felt. 45
Sec. 14. The beauty of curvature. 46
Sec. 15. How constant in external nature. 46
Sec. 16. The beauty of gradation. 47
Sec. 17. How found in nature. 47
Sec. 18. How necessary in Art. 48
Sec. 19. Infinity not rightly implied by vastness.
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