Chapter XXX: Section I

OF THE THEORETIC FACULTY. Chapter I.-Of the Rank and Relations of the Theoretic Faculty. page § 1. With what care the subject is to be approached. 1 § 2. And of what importance considered. 2 § 3. The doubtful force of the term "utility". 3 § 4. Its proper sense. 4 § 5. How falsely applied in these times. 4 § 6. The evil consequences of such interpretation. How connected with national power. 5 § 7. How to be averted. 6 § 8. Division of the pursuits of men into subservient and objective. 8 § 9. Their relative dignities. 10 § 10. How reversed through erring notions of the contemplative and imaginative faculties. 10 § 11. Object of the present section. 11 Chapter II.-Of the Theoretic Faculty as concerned with Pleasures of Sense. § 1. Explanation of the term "theoretic". 12 § 2. Of the differences of rank in pleasures of sense. 12 § 3. Use of the terms Temperate and Intemperate. 13 § 4. Right use of the term "intemperate". 13 § 5. Grounds of inferiority in the pleasures which are subjects of intemperance. 14 § 6. Evidence of higher rank in pleasures of sight and hearing. 15 § 7. How the lower pleasures may be elevated in rank. 16 § 8. Ideas of beauty how essentially moral. 17 § 9. How degraded by heartless reception. 17 § 10. How exalted by affection. 18 Chapter III.-Of Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Impressions of Sense. § 1. By what test is the health of the perceptive faculty to be determined? 19 § 2. And in what sense may the terms Right and Wrong be attached to its conclusions? 20 § 3. What power we have over impressions of sense. 21 § 4. Depends on acuteness of attention. 21 § 5. Ultimate conclusions universal. 22 § 6. What duty is attached to this power over impressions of sense. 22 § 7. How rewarded. 23 § 8. Especially with respect to ideas of beauty. 23 § 9. Errors induced by the power of habit. 24 § 10. The necessity of submission in early stages of judgment. 24 § 11. The large scope of matured judgment. 25 § 12. How distinguishable from false taste. 25 § 13. The danger of a spirit of choice. 26 § 14. And criminality. 27 § 15. How certain conclusions respecting beauty are by reason demonstrable. 27 § 16. With what liabilities to error. 28 § 17. The term "beauty" how limitable in the outset. Divided into typical and vital. 28 Chapter IV.-Of False Opinions held concerning Beauty. § 1. Of the false opinion that truth is beauty, and vice versa. 30 § 2. Of the false opinion that beauty is usefulness. Compare Chap. xii. § 5. 31 § 3. Of the false opinion that beauty results from custom. Compare Chap. vi. § 1. 31 § 4. The twofold operation of custom. It deadens sensation, but confirms affection. 31 § 5. But never either creates or destroys the essence of beauty. 32 § 6. Instances. 32 § 7. Of the false opinion that beauty depends on the association of ideas. 33 § 8. Association. Is, 1st, rational. It is of no efficiency as a cause of beauty. 33 § 9. Association accidental. The extent of its influence. 34 § 10. The dignity of its function. 35 § 11. How it is connected with impressions of beauty. 36 § 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. § 1. Impossibility of adequately treating the subject. 38 § 2. With what simplicity of feeling to be approached. 38 § 3. The child instinct respecting space. 39 § 4. Continued in after life. 40 § 5. Whereto this instinct is traceable. 40 § 6. Infinity how necessary in art. 41 § 7. Conditions of its necessity. 42 § 8. And connected analogies. 42 § 9. How the dignity of treatment is proportioned to the expression of infinity. 43 § 10. Examples among the Southern schools. 44 § 11. Among the Venetians. 44 § 12. Among the painters of landscape. 45 § 13. Other modes in which the power of infinity is felt. 45 § 14. The beauty of curvature. 46 § 15. How constant in external nature. 46 § 16. The beauty of gradation. 47 § 17. How found in nature. 47 § 18. How necessary in Art. 48 § 19. Infinity not rightly implied by vastness. 49