Chapter V., Of Truth of Space:--Secondly, as its Appearance is dependent on the Power of the Eye

§1.	The peculiar indistinctness dependent on the retirement of objects from the eye.	191
§2.	Causes confusion, but not annihilation of details.	191
§3.	Instances in various objects.	192
§4.	Two great resultant truths; that nature is never distinct, and never vacant.	193
§5.	Complete violation of both these principles by the old masters. They are either distinct or vacant.	193
§6.	Instances from Nicholas Poussin.	194
§7.	From Claude.	194
§8.	And G. Poussin.	195
§9.	The imperative necessity, in landscape painting, of fulness and finish.	196
§10.	Breadth is not vacancy.	197
§11.	The fulness and mystery of Turner's distances.	198
§12.	Farther illustrations in architectural drawing.	199
§13.	In near objects as well as distances.	199
§14.	Vacancy and falsehood of Canaletto.	200
§15.	Still greater fulness and finish in landscape foregrounds.	200
§16.	Space and size are destroyed alike by distinctness and by vacancy.	202
§17.	Swift execution best secures perfection of details.	202
§18.	Finish is far more necessary in landscape than in historical subjects.	202
§19.	Recapitulation of the section.	203