Chapter I: The Religious Domain of Romantic Art

1. The Redemption history of Christ 302

(_a_) The principle of Love as paramount in this religious sphere. How far Art in such a sphere is a superfluity 303

(_b_) From a certain aspect the appearance of Art is necessary 303

(_c_) The aspect of contingency in the particularity of an individual Person as such Divine 304

[(_α_) The presentment by artists of the exterior personality of Christ 304

(_β_) The conflict inherent in the religious growth, viewed as a process, though determining that process universally, is concentrated in the history of _one_ person in the first instance 306

(_γ_) The feature of death only regarded here as a point of transition to self-reconcilement] 308

2. Religious Love 309

(_a_) Conception of the Absolute as Love 309

(_b_) Form of Love as self-concentrated emotion. Affiliation of such with sensuous presentment 310

(_c_) Love as the Ideal of romantic art 310

[(_α_) Christ as Divine Love 311

(_β_) Form most compatible with Art the love of mother. Mary, mother of Jesus 311

(_γ_) Love of Christ's disciples and the Christian community] 313

3. The Spirit of the Community 313

(_a_) The Martyrs 315

(_b_) Penance and conversion within the soul 320

(_c_) Miracles and Legends 323

CHAPTER II

CHIVALRY

Introduction 325

1. Honour 332

(_a_) Notion of same. Contrast between Greek and modern art in this respect 332

(_b_) Vulnerability of same 335

(_c_) Reparation demanded. Honour a mode of self-subsistency which is self-reflective 336

2. Love 337

(_a_) Fundamental conception of. Illustrations from poetry 337

(_b_) Collisions of the same 341

[(_α_) That between honour and love 341

(_β_) That between the supreme spiritual forces of state, family, etc., and love 342

(_γ_) Opposition between love and external conditions in the prose of life and the prejudice of others] 342

(_c_) Limitation of contingency inherent in the conception itself 343

3. Fidelity 345

(_a_) Loyalty of service 346

(_b_) The nature of its co-ordination with a social order either in the world of Chivalry or the modern 347

(_c_) Nature of its collisions. Illustrations. The "Cid," etc. 348