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CHAPTER VI.--Of Unity, or the Type of the Divine Comprehensiveness.
Sec. 1. The general conception of divine Unity. 50
Sec. 2. The glory of all things is their Unity. 50
Sec. 3. The several kinds of unity. Subjectional. Original. Of
sequence, and of membership. 51
Sec. 4 Unity of membership. How secured. 52
Sec. 5. Variety. Why required. 53
Sec. 6. Change, and its influence on beauty. 54
Sec. 7. The love of change. How morbid and evil. 55
Sec. 8. The conducing of variety towards unity of subjection. 55
Sec. 9. And towards unity of sequence. 57
Sec. 10. The nature of proportion. 1st, of apparent proportion. 57
Sec. 11. The value of apparent proportion in curvature. 60
Sec. 12. How by nature obtained. 61
Sec. 13. Apparent proportion in melodies of line. 61
Sec. 14. Error of Burke in this matter. 62
Sec. 15. Constructive proportion. Its influence in plants. 63
Sec. 16. And animals. 64
Sec. 17. Summary. 64
CHAPTER VII.--Of Repose, or the Type of Divine Permanence.
Sec. 1. Universal feeling respecting the necessity of repose in art.
Its sources. 65
Sec. 2. Repose how expressed in matter. 66
Sec. 3. The necessity to repose of an implied energy. 66
Sec. 4. Mental repose, how noble. 67
Sec. 5. Its universal value as a test of art. 68
Sec. 6. Instances in the Laocoon and Theseus. 69
Sec. 7. And in altar tombs. 70
CHAPTER VIII.--Of Symmetry, or the Type of Divine Justice.
Sec. 1. Symmetry, what and how found in organic nature. 72
Sec. 2. How necessary in art. 72
Sec. 3. To what its agreeableness is referable. Various instances. 73
Sec. 4. Especially in religious art. 73
CHAPTER IX.--Of Purity, or the Type of Divine Energy.
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