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Title: Modern Painters Volume II (of V)

Author: John Ruskin

Release Date: September 4, 2009 [EBook #29906]

Language: English

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[Illustration: LANDSCAPE FROM A PAINTING BY J. M. W. TURNER]

Library Edition

THE COMPLETE WORKS

OF

JOHN RUSKIN

MODERN PAINTERS
VOLUME II--OF TRUTH AND THEORETIC
FACULTIES
_Volume III_--OF MANY THINGS

NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK CHICAGO

MODERN PAINTERS.

VOLUME II.,

CONTAINING

PART III.,

SECTIONS I. AND II.

OF THE IMAGINATIVE AND THEORETIC FACULTIES.

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.
PAGE
Sec. 1. With what care the subject is to be approached. 1
Sec. 2. And of what importance considered.