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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

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Chapter IV.—Of False Opinions held concerning Beauty.

§  1.	Of the false opinion that truth is beauty, and vice versa.	30
§  2.	Of the false opinion that beauty is usefulness. Compare Chap. xii. § 5.	31
§  3.	Of the false opinion that beauty results from custom. Compare Chap. vi. § 1.	31
§  4.	The twofold operation of custom. It deadens sensation, but confirms affection.	31
§  5.	But never either creates or destroys the essence of beauty.	32
§  6.	Instances.	32
§  7.	Of the false opinion that beauty depends on the association of ideas.	33
§  8.	Association. Is, 1st, rational. It is of no efficiency as a cause of beauty.	33
§  9.	Association accidental. The extent of its influence.	34
§ 10.	The dignity of its function.	35
§ 11.	How it is connected with impressions of beauty.	36
§ 12.	And what caution it renders necessary in the examination of them.	36

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Chapter V.—Of Typical Beauty:—First, of Infinity, or the Type of Divine Incomprehensibility.

§  1.	Impossibility of adequately treating the subject.	38
§  2.	With what simplicity of feeling to be approached.	38
§  3.	The child instinct respecting space.	39
§  4.	Continued in after life.	40
§  5.	Whereto this instinct is traceable.	40
§  6.	Infinity how necessary in art.	41
§  7.	Conditions of its necessity.	42
§  8.	And connected analogies.	42
§  9.	How the dignity of treatment is proportioned to the expression of infinity.	43
§ 10.	Examples among the Southern schools.	44
§ 11.	Among the Venetians.	44
§ 12.	Among the painters of landscape.	45
§ 13.	Other modes in which the power of infinity is felt.	45
§ 14.	The beauty of curvature.	46
§ 15.	How constant in external nature.	46
§ 16.	The beauty of gradation.	47
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