Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE COMPLETE WORKS

OF

JOHN RUSKIN

MODERN PAINTERS
VOLUME II--OF TRUTH AND THEORETIC
FACULTIES
_Volume III_--OF MANY THINGS

NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK CHICAGO

MODERN PAINTERS.

VOLUME II.,

CONTAINING

PART III.,

SECTIONS I. AND II.

OF THE IMAGINATIVE AND THEORETIC FACULTIES.

SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.

PART III.

OF IDEAS OF BEAUTY.

SECTION I.

OF THE THEORETIC FACULTY.

CHAPTER I.--Of the Rank and Relations of the Theoretic Faculty.
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Sec. 1. With what care the subject is to be approached. 1
Sec. 2. And of what importance considered. 2
Sec. 3. The doubtful force of the term "utility". 3
Sec. 4. Its proper sense. 4
Sec. 5. How falsely applied in these times. 4
Sec. 6. The evil consequences of such interpretation. How connected
with national power. 5
Sec. 7. How to be averted. 6
Sec. 8. Division of the pursuits of men into subservient and objective. 8
Sec. 9. Their relative dignities. 10
Sec. 10. How reversed through erring notions of the contemplative
and imaginative faculties. 10
Sec. 11. Object of the present section. 11

CHAPTER II.--Of the Theoretic Faculty as concerned with Pleasures of
Sense.

Sec. 1. Explanation of the term "theoretic". 12
Sec. 2. Of the differences of rank in pleasures of sense. 12
Sec. 3. Use of the terms Temperate and Intemperate. 13
Sec. 4. Right use of the term "intemperate". 13
Sec. 5. Grounds of inferiority in the pleasures which are subjects of
intemperance. 14
Sec. 6. Evidence of higher rank in pleasures of sight and hearing. 15
Sec. 7. How the lower pleasures may be elevated in rank. 16
Sec. 8. Ideas of beauty how essentially moral. 17
Sec. 9. How degraded by heartless reception. 17
Sec. 10. How exalted by affection. 18