Sec. 1. Transition from typical to vital Beauty. 89
Sec. 2. The perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned with
vital beauty, is charity. 90
Sec. 3. Only with respect to plants, less affection than sympathy. 91
Sec. 4. Which is proportioned to the appearance of energy in the
plants. 92
Sec. 5. This sympathy is unselfish, and does not regard utility. 93
Sec. 6. Especially with respect to animals. 94
Sec. 7. And it is destroyed by evidences of mechanism. 95
Sec. 8. The second perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned
with life is justice of moral judgment. 96
Sec. 9. How impeded. 97
Sec. 10. The influence of moral signs in expression. 97
Sec. 11. As also in plants. 99
Sec. 12. Recapitulation. 100
CHAPTER XIII.--Of Vital Beauty:--Secondly, as Generic.
Sec. 1. The beauty of fulfilment of appointed function in every
animal. 101
Sec. 2. The two senses of the word "ideal." Either it refers to
action of the imagination. 102
Sec. 3. Or to perfection of type. 103
Sec. 4. This last sense how inaccurate, yet to be retained. 103
Sec. 5. Of Ideal form. First, in the lower animals. 104
Sec. 6. In what consistent. 104
Sec. 7. Ideal form in vegetables. 105
Sec. 8. The difference of position between plants and animals. 105
Sec. 9. Admits of variety in the ideal of the former. 106
Sec. 10. Ideal form in vegetables destroyed by cultivation. 107
Sec. 11. Instance in the Soldanella and Ranunculus. 108
Sec. 12. The beauty of repose and felicity, how consistent with such
ideal. 108
Sec. 13. The ideality of Art. 109
Sec. 14. How connected with the imaginative faculties. 109
Sec. 15. Ideality, how belonging to ages and conditions. 110
CHAPTER XIV.--Of Vital Beauty:--Thirdly, in Man.
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