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قراءة كتاب Modern Painters, Volume 2 (of 5)
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Chapter X.—Of Moderation, or the Type of Government by Law.
| § 1. | Meaning of the terms Chasteness and Refinement. | 81 |
| § 2. | How referable to temporary fashions. | 81 |
| § 3. | How to the perception of completion. | 81 |
| § 4. | Finish, by great masters esteemed essential. | 82 |
| § 5. | Moderation, its nature and value. | 84 |
| § 6. | It is the girdle of beauty. | 84 |
| § 7. | How found in natural curves and colors. | 84 |
| § 8. | How difficult of attainment, yet essential to all good. | 85 |
Chapter XI.—General Inferences respecting Typical Beauty.
| § 1. | The subject incompletely treated, yet admitting of general conclusions. | 86 |
| § 2. | Typical beauty not created for man's sake. | 87 |
| § 3. | But degrees of it for his sake admitted. | 87 |
| § 4. | What encouragement hence to be received. | 87 |
Chapter XII.—Of Vital Beauty:—First, as Relative.
| § 1. | Transition from typical to vital Beauty. | 89 |
| § 2. | The perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned with vital beauty, is charity. | 90 |
| § 3. | Only with respect to plants, less affection than sympathy. | 91 |
| § 4. | Which is proportioned to the appearance of energy in the plants. | 92 |
| § 5. | This sympathy is unselfish, and does not regard utility. | 93 |
| § 6. | Especially with respect to animals. | 94 |
| § 7. | And it is destroyed by evidences of mechanism. | 95 |
| § 8. | The second perfection of the theoretic faculty as concerned with life is justice of moral judgment. | 96 |
| § 9. | How impeded. | 97 |
| § 10. | The influence of moral signs in expression. | 97 |
| § 11. | As also in plants. | 99 |
| § 12. | Recapitulation. | 100 |
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. |