33. Recapitulation. 131
CHAPTER XV.--General Conclusions respecting the Theoretic Faculty.
Sec. 1. There are no sources of the emotion of beauty more than those
found in things visible. 133
Sec. 2. What imperfection exists in visible things. How in a sort by
imagination removable. 134
Sec. 3. Which however affects not our present conclusions. 134
Sec. 4. The four sources from which the pleasure of beauty is derived
are all divine. 134
Sec. 5. What objections may be made to this conclusion. 135
Sec. 6. Typical beauty may be aesthetically pursued. Instances. 135
Sec. 7. How interrupted by false feeling. 136
Sec. 8. Greatness and truth are sometimes by the Deity sustained and
spoken in and through evil men. 137
Sec. 9. The second objection arising from the coldness of Christian
men to external beauty. 138
Sec. 10. Reasons for this coldness in the anxieties of the world. These
anxieties overwrought and criminal. 139
Sec. 11. Evil consequences of such coldness. 140
Sec. 12. Theoria the service of Heaven. 140
SECTION II.
OF THE IMAGINATIVE FACULTY.
CHAPTER I.--Of the Three Forms of Imagination.
Sec. 1. A partial examination only of the imagination is to be
attempted. 142
Sec. 2. The works of the metaphysicians how nugatory with respect
to this faculty. 143
Sec. 3. The definition of D. Stewart, how inadequate. 143
Sec. 4. This instance nugatory. 144
Sec. 5. Various instances. 145
Sec. 6. The three operations of the imagination. Penetrative,
associative, contemplative. 146
CHAPTER II.--Of Imagination Associative.
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