Modern Painters Volume II (of V)

Chapter 1 —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 2 —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 3 —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 * * *