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