Chapter XV.-General Conclusions respecting the Theoretic Faculty.

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§1. There are no sources of the emotion of beauty more than those found in things visible. 133
§2. What imperfection exists in visible things. How in a sort by imagination removable. 134
§3. Which however affects not our present conclusions. 134
§4. The four sources from which the pleasure of beauty is derived are all divine. 134
§5. What objections may be made to this conclusion. 135
§6. Typical beauty may be Æsthetically pursued. Instances. 135
§7. How interrupted by false feeling. 136
§8. Greatness and truth are sometimes by the Deity sustained and spoken in and through evil men. 137
§9. The second objection arising from the coldness of Christian men to external beauty. 138
§10. Reasons for this coldness in the anxieties of the world. These anxieties overwrought and criminal. 139
§11. Evil consequences of such coldness. 140
§12. Theoria the service of Heaven. 140
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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