hable sea.

FOOTNOTES

[13] In one of the smaller rooms of the Pitti palace, over the door,
is a temptation of St. Anthony, by Salvator, wherein such power as
the artist possessed is fully manifested, with little,
comparatively, that is offensive. It is a vigorous and ghastly
thought, in that kind of horror which is dependent on scenic effect,
perhaps unrivalled, and I shall have occasion to refer to it again
in speaking of the powers of imagination. I allude to it here,
because the sky of the distance affords a remarkable instance of the
power of light at present under discussion. It is formed of flakes
of black cloud, with rents and openings of intense and lurid green,
and at least half of the impressiveness of the picture depends on
these openings. Close them, make the sky one mass of gloom, and the
spectre will be awful no longer. It owes to the light of the
distance both its size and its spirituality. The time would fail me
if I were to name the tenth part of the pictures which occur to me,
whose vulgarity is redeemed by this circumstance alone, and yet let
not the artist trust to such morbid and conventional use of it as
may be seen in the common blue and yellow effectism of the present
day. Of the value of moderation and simplicity in the use of this,
as of all other sources of pleasurable emotion, I shall presently
have occasion to speak farther.

CHAPTER VI.

OF UNITY, OR THE TYPE OF THE DIVINE COMPREHENSIVENESS.

Sec. 1. The general conception of divine Unity.

"All things," says Hooker, "(God only excepted,) besides the nature
which they have in themselves, receive externally some perfection from
other things." Hence the appearance of separation or isolation in
anything, and of self-dependence, is an appearance of imperfection: and
all appearances of connection and brotherhood are pleasant and right,
both as significative of perfection in the things united, and as typical
of that Unity which we attribute to God, and of which our true
conception is rightly explained and limited by Dr. Brown in his XCII.
lecture; that Unity which consists not in his own singleness or
separation, but in the necessity of his inherence in all things that be,
without which no creature of any kind could hold existence for a moment.
Which necessity of Divine essence I think it better to speak