Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- MODERN PAINTERS
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE RE-ARRANGED EDITION (1883)
- AUTHOR'S SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS
- PART III OF IDEAS OF BEAUTY
- SECTION I OF THE THEORETIC FACULTY
- CHAPTER I OF THE RANK AND RELATIONS OF THE THEORETIC FACULTY
- CHAPTER II OF THE THEORETIC FACULTY AS CONCERNED WITH PLEASURES OF SENSE
- CHAPTER III OF ACCURACY AND INACCURACY IN IMPRESSIONS OF SENSE
- CHAPTER IV OF FALSE OPINIONS HELD CONCERNING BEAUTY
- CHAPTER V OF TYPICAL BEAUTY:–FIRST, OF INFINITY, OR THE TYPE OF DIVINE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY
- CHAPTER VI OF UNITY, OR THE TYPE OF THE DIVINE COMPREHENSIVENESS
- CHAPTER VII OF REPOSE, OR THE TYPE OF DIVINE PERMANENCE
- CHAPTER VIII OF SYMMETRY, OR THE TYPE OF DIVINE JUSTICE
- CHAPTER IX OF PURITY, OR THE TYPE OF DIVINE ENERGY
- CHAPTER X OF MODERATION, OR THE TYPE OF GOVERNMENT BY LAW
- CHAPTER XI GENERAL INFERENCES RESPECTING TYPICAL BEAUTY
- CHAPTER XII OF VITAL BEAUTY. I. OF RELATIVE VITAL BEAUTY
- CHAPTER XIII II. OF GENERIC VITAL BEAUTY
- CHAPTER XIV III. OF VITAL BEAUTY IN MAN
- CHAPTER XV GENERAL CONCLUSIONS RESPECTING THE THEORETIC FACULTY
- SECTION II OF THE IMAGINATIVE FACULTY
- APPENDIX
- Plate section
CHAPTER XI - GENERAL INFERENCES RESPECTING TYPICAL BEAUTY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- MODERN PAINTERS
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE RE-ARRANGED EDITION (1883)
- AUTHOR'S SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS
- PART III OF IDEAS OF BEAUTY
- SECTION I OF THE THEORETIC FACULTY
- CHAPTER I OF THE RANK AND RELATIONS OF THE THEORETIC FACULTY
- CHAPTER II OF THE THEORETIC FACULTY AS CONCERNED WITH PLEASURES OF SENSE
- CHAPTER III OF ACCURACY AND INACCURACY IN IMPRESSIONS OF SENSE
- CHAPTER IV OF FALSE OPINIONS HELD CONCERNING BEAUTY
- CHAPTER V OF TYPICAL BEAUTY:–FIRST, OF INFINITY, OR THE TYPE OF DIVINE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY
- CHAPTER VI OF UNITY, OR THE TYPE OF THE DIVINE COMPREHENSIVENESS
- CHAPTER VII OF REPOSE, OR THE TYPE OF DIVINE PERMANENCE
- CHAPTER VIII OF SYMMETRY, OR THE TYPE OF DIVINE JUSTICE
- CHAPTER IX OF PURITY, OR THE TYPE OF DIVINE ENERGY
- CHAPTER X OF MODERATION, OR THE TYPE OF GOVERNMENT BY LAW
- CHAPTER XI GENERAL INFERENCES RESPECTING TYPICAL BEAUTY
- CHAPTER XII OF VITAL BEAUTY. I. OF RELATIVE VITAL BEAUTY
- CHAPTER XIII II. OF GENERIC VITAL BEAUTY
- CHAPTER XIV III. OF VITAL BEAUTY IN MAN
- CHAPTER XV GENERAL CONCLUSIONS RESPECTING THE THEORETIC FACULTY
- SECTION II OF THE IMAGINATIVE FACULTY
- APPENDIX
- Plate section
Summary
The subject incompletely treated, yet admitting of general conclusions
I have now enumerated and, in some measure, explained those characteristics of mere matter by which I conceive it becomes agreeable to the Theoretic faculty, under whatever form, dead, organized, or animated, it may present itself. It will be our task in the succeeding volume to examine, and illustrate by examples, the mode in which these characteristics appear in every division of creation, in stones, mountains, waves, clouds, and all organic bodies, beginning with vegetables, and then taking instances in the range of animals, from the mollusc to man; examining how one animal form is nobler than another, by the more manifest presence of these attributes, and chiefly endeavouring to show how much there is of admirable and lovely, even in what is commonly despised. At present I have only to mark the conclusions at which we have as yet arrived respecting the rank of the Theoretic faculty, and then to pursue the inquiry farther into the nature of vital beauty.
As I before said, I pretend not to have enumerated all the sources of material beauty, nor the analogies connected with them; it is probable that others may occur to many readers, or to myself, as I proceed into more particular inquiry; but I am not careful to collect all evidence within reach on the subject.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 142 - 145Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1903