Chapter XIII.-Of Vital Beauty:-Secondly, as Generic.

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§1. The beauty of fulfilment of appointed function in every animal. 101
§2. The two senses of the word "ideal." Either it refers to action of the imagination. 102
§3. Or to perfection of type. 103
§4. This last sense how inaccurate, yet to be retained. 103
§5. Of Ideal form. First, in the lower animals. 104
§6. In what consistent. 104
§7. Ideal form in vegetables. 105
§8. The difference of position between plants and animals. 105
§9. Admits of variety in the ideal of the former. 106
§10. Ideal form in vegetables destroyed by cultivation. 107
§11. Instance in the Soldanella and Ranunculus. 108
§12. The beauty of repose and felicity, how consistent with such ideal. 108
§13. The ideality of Art. 109
§14. How connected with the imaginative faculties. 109
§15. Ideality, how belonging to ages and conditions. 110
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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