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3. Is not in itself capable of adding to the charm of fair things § 4. But gives to the Imagination its regardant power over them § 5. The third office of Fancy distinguished from Imagination contemplative

§ 6. Various instances

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§ 7. Morbid or Nervous Fancy

§ 8. The action of Contemplative Imagination is not to be ex

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§ 9. Except under narrow limits.-First, Abstract rendering of form without colour

§ 10. Of colour without form

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§ 11. Or of both without texture

§ 12. Abstraction or typical representation of animal form 13. Either when it is symbolically used

§ 14. Or in architectural decoration.

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§ 15. Exception in delicate and superimposed ornament.

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§ 16. Abstraction necessary from imperfection of materials

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§ 17. Abstractions of things capable of varied accident are not

imaginative

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§ 18. Yet sometimes valuable

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§ 19. Exaggeration. Its laws and limits. First, in scale of repre

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§ 20. Secondly, of things capable of variety of scale

§ 21. Thirdly, necessary in expression of characteristic features on diminished scale

§ 22. Recapitulation

CHAPTER V.-OF THE SUPERHUMAN IDEAL

§ 1. The subject is not to be here treated in detail

§ 3. And these are in or through creature forms familiar to us
§ 4. Supernatural character may be impressed on these either by
phenomena inconsistent with their common nature

§ 2. The conceivable modes of manifestation of Spiritual Beings are four

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§ 6. First, of the expression of Inspiration

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§ 8. Supernatural character expressed by modification of accessaries 319 § 9. Landscape of the religious painters. Its character is eminently symmetrical

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