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CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

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ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER üi The final cause of the difference between
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT

the Passions belonging to self-preser-

EDITION

vii vation, and those which regard the So-

A VINDICATION OF NATURAL So- ciety of the sexes

49

CIETY: OR, A VIEW OF THE MISE-

Of Beauty

ib.

RIES AND EVILS ARISING TO MAN- Society and Solitude

50

KIND FROM EVERY SPECIES OF AR- Sympathy, Imitation, and Ambition ib.

TIFICIAL SOCIETY

ix Sympathy

ib.

A PhilosophICAL INQUIRY INTO THE The effects of Sympathy in the distresses

ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE SUB- of others

51

LIME AND BEAUTIFUL; WITH AN

of the effects of Tragedy

ib.

INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE CONCERN-

Imitation

52

ING TASTE

33 Ambition

ib.

· Preface

34 Recapitulation

53

Introduction. On Taste

37 The Conclusion

ib.

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Infinity in pleasing Objects

62 Taste and Smell .

80

Difficulty

ib. The Sublime and Beautiful compared

ib.

Magnificence

63

Light

ib.

PART IV.

Light in Building

64

Colour considered as productive of the

Of the efficient cause of

Sublime

Boautiful

ib.

ib.

Sound and Loudness

Association

81

ib.

Suddenness

Cause of pain and Fear

ib.

65

Intermitting

Continued

82

ib.

The Cries of Animals .

How the Sublime is produced

ib.

ib.

Smell and Taste. Bitters and Stenches ib.

How Pain can be a cause of Delight

83

Feeling. Pain

Exercise necessary for the finer Organs ib.

66

Why things not dangerous sometimes

produce a passion like Terrour

ib.

PART III.

Why visual objects of great dimensions

are Sublime

84

Of Beauty

66

Unity, why requisite to Vastness

ib.

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in The artificial Infinite

85

Vegetables

67

The vibrations must be similar

ib.

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in

The effects of succession in visual objects

Animals

68

explained

ib,

Proportion not the cause of Beauty in

the Human Species

Locke's opinion concerning Darkness con-

69

sidered

86

Proportion further considered

71

Darkness terrible in its own nature 87

Fitness not the cause of Beauty

72

The real effects of Fitness

Why darkness is terrible

ib.

73

The effects of Blackness

88

The Recapitulation

74

The effects of Blackness moderated ib.

Perfection not the cause of Beauty ib.

How far the idea of Beauty may be ap-

The physical cause of Love

89

Why Smoothness is Beautiful

ib.

plied to the qualities of the mind ib.

Sweetness, its nature

90

How far the idea of Beauty may

be

ap- Sweetness relaxing

ib.

plied to virtue

75

Variation why beautiful

91

The real cause of Beauty

ib.

Beautiful objects small

Concerning Sinallness

ib.

ib.

Of Colour

93

Smoothness

Gradual Variation

ib.

PART V.

Delicacy

ib.

Beauty in colour

77 Of Words

93

Recapitulation

ib. The common effect of Poetry, not by rais-

The Physiognomy

ib. ing ideas of things

ib. General words before ideas

94

Ugliness

78 The effect of Words

95

Grace

ib. Examples that words may affect without

Elegance and Speciousness

ib.

raising images

ib.

The Beautiful in Feeling

ib. Poetry not strictly an imitative art 97

The Beautiful in Sounds

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ib,

The Eye

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